Works by Campbell: eBooks & eSingles
eBooks & eSingles (.mobi & .epub)
| Cover | Title | Description |
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 | A Joseph Campbell Companion (Ebook) | The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are—Joseph Campbell One of Joseph Campbell’s most popular, most quoted works, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living is a treasure trove … |
 | Asian Journals: India and Japan (Ebook) | Travel with Comparative Mythologist Joseph Campbell to discover the power of myth in Asia At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and … |
 | Bachofen’s Myth, Religion & Mother Right (Esingle) | “Wise, deep-seeing, sagely Bachofen… could with equal eye regard the whole sweep of what he saw to be an orderly progression in which his own mode of consciousness participated as a member. And it … |
 | Belief and Power in Myth (Esingle) | “The question of belief is of less moment in the mythological sphere than the question of the power of the imagery to evoke and organize spiritual energy and thus to render, not an ideology, … |
 | Bios & Mythos (Esingle) | Joseph Campbell wrote this article for a collection of essays, Psychoanalysis and Culture, printed in 1951 to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the famed psychiatrist and ethnologist, Géza Róheim. In it, he seeks to … |
 | Comparative Mythology (Esingle) | Joseph Campbell taught Mythology to students at Sarah Lawrence College, just north of New York City, for thirty-eight years. Late in his tenure, Campbell made a proposal to use his introductory course as the … |
 | Correspondence (Ebook) | Selected letters capturing ongoing conversations between famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and a remarkable group of artists, seekers, filmmakers, novelists, and scholars This brand-new collection of letters features illuminating conversations between Joseph Campbell and a … |
 | Earthrise from Thou Art That (Esingle) | This extract from Thou Art That, the first title in the publishing partnership between Joseph Campbell Foundation and New World Library, remains one of the most inspiring, delightful pieces we have published together. “Earthrise” … |
 | Foreword to Marija Gimbutas’s The Language of the Goddess (Esingle) | Joseph Campbell was fascinated by Lithuanian mythologist and anthropologist Marija Gimbutas’s work. As he worked on his great (and, sadly, unfinished) masterpiece, the Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Campbell immersed himself in her writing … |
 | Foreword to The Portable Jung (Esingle) | Joseph Campbell said numerous times that he wasn’t a Jungian — by which he meant that he was never a direct student of C.G. Jung’s (though the two did correspond), nor a patient, nor … |
 | Goddesses (Ebook) | Explore the mysteries of the feminine divine Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters … |
 | Historical Atlas of World Mythology: (I.A.) Prologue (Esingle) | We live, today, in a terminal moraine of myths and mythic symbols, fragments large and small of traditions that formerly inspired and gave rise to civilizations. Our prevailing, Newtonian world view is of a … |
 | Historical Atlas of World Mythology: (I.D.) Early Hunters of the Open Plains (Esingle) | A recognition of the mystery of death, and therewith, of life, marks the spiritual separation of man from the beasts. — Joseph Campbell In this installment of the Historical Atlas of World Mythology (Digital … |
 | Historical Atlas of World Mythology: (I.E.) Living Peoples of the Equatorial Forest (Esingle) | Explore the primal myths of the tropical world The contrast of the two worlds and of the ways of life and thought of these Pygmies and the Bushmen could hardly be more extreme. Ethnologically, … |
 | Historical Atlas of World Mythology: (I.F.) Art as a Revelation (Esingle) | In this latest installment, one of the final pieces that Campbell wrote, he explores the creative explosion that marked the beginning of modern human culture. “It is evident,” he says, “that ‘Primitive Art,’ both … |
 | Masks of God™ Volume 1: Primitive Mythology (Ebook) | Explore the power of myth as humanity first discovered it In this first volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — the preeminent mythologist looks at the … |
 | Masks of God™ Volume 2: Oriental Mythology (Ebook) | Explore the power of myth as it flowered in Asia In this second volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — the pre-eminent mythologist looks at Asian … |
 | Masks of God™ Volume 3: Occidental Mythology (Ebook) | Explore the power of myth as it flowered in the ancient Near East and the Classical World In this third volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology … |
 | Masks of God™ Volume 4: Creative Mythology (Ebook) | The mythologies of this book are the productions, the revelations — the letters in a bottle, set floating on the sea — of such men and women, who have had the courage to be … |
 | Moonlight in Vermont (Esingle) | In this short story, written just before the American entry into World War II, Joseph Campbell explores a theme he’d study for many years as an academic: the journey of a hero into a … |
 | Myth and Dream (Esingle from The Hero with a Thousand Faces) | Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the … |
 | Mythic Imagination (ebook) | Before he was the engaging professor who brought mythology into people’s living rooms through his conversations with Bill Moyers, before he became known as the thinker whose ideas influenced Star Wars, and before his … |
 | Mythic Worlds, Modern Words (Ebook) | In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce’s Ulysses. Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in … |
 | Myths of Light (Ebook) | Master mythologist Joseph Campbell had a genius for finding the unifying symbols and metaphors in apparently distinct cultures and traditions. In Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal, Campbell explores, with his characteristic … |
 | Myths to Live By (Ebook) | Joseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and spirit: “a womb with a view.” In Myths to Live By, he examines all of the ways in which myth supports … |
 | Pathways to Bliss (Ebook) | Explore myth as a tool for personal growth and transformation Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people’s religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help … |
 | Romance of the Grail (Ebook) | Explore the magic of the Arthurian legends The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, edited and introduced … |
 | Tea & Fire (E-Single) | In these entries from the journals that Joseph Campbell kept during his life-changing trip to South and East Asia in 1955–56, the mythologist experiences firsthand a Shintō fire ceremony, discusses Asian philosophy, religion, … |
 | The Dolorous Stroke: eSingle from Romance of the Grail | This is an excerpt from Campbell’s collection Romance of the Grail. Throughout his life, Joseph Campbell was deeply engaged in the study of the Grail Quests and Arthurian legends of the European Middle Ages. … |
 | The Ecstasy of Being (Ebook) | Joseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell’s unpublished manuscript “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual … |
 | The Expression of Myth in Dance Images (eSingle) | Our experience of love, as of war, these days, does not include a sense of the mythic dimension. In fact, when comparing the Indian Kṛṣṇa material [from the Gīta Govinda] with the European story … |
 | The Fairy Tale (Esingle) | “The folk tale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.” — Joseph Campbell Originally written as the foreword to The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales (released in 1944), this fascinating essay explores the basis and the … |
 | The Flight of the Wild Gander (Ebook) | Explore the origins and impact of myth What is the “meaning” of a tree? of a butterfly? of the birth of a child? or of the universe? What is the “meaning” of the song … |
 | The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Ebook) | Discover myth as old as humanity and as new as last night’s dream The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd … |
 | The Hero’s Journey (Ebook) | Explore the life and work of Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell and … |
 | The Historical Development of Mythology (Esingle) | In this fascinating overview of the shape of myths throughout human civilization’s expansion, Joseph Campbell lays out an overview of both the origins and the evolution of our myths. Campbell wrote this essay just … |
 | The Humbling of Indra (Esingle) | The knowledge of space is the knowledge of our lives. We’re born from space. It was from space that the Big Bang came that sent forth galaxies, and out of the galaxies, solar systems. … |
 | The Inner Reaches of Outer Space (Ebook) | Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell’s last book explores the space age. … |
 | The Lord of Light (Esingle) | Having brushed all the sand from his back, Lilian began abstractedly to scratch doodles with her fingernail on his shoulder. “You don’t know,” she said, “how repulsive it is to have all those ninnies … |
 | The Mythic Dimension — Selected Essays 1959–1987 (Ebook) | Explore the mysteries of myth with a master In these pages, the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth … |
 | The Occult in Myth and Literature, eSingle | “The Occult in Myth and Literature” is one of the twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays exploring myth in all its dimensions from the collection The Mythic Dimension. Written at the height of Joseph … |
 | The Sacred Marriage — Thoughts on Love, Myth, and Partnership (Esingle) | In this extract from A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, one of this quotable man’s most quoted works, Campbell explores one of the central themes of myth: love and marriage. … |
 | The Symbol without Meaning (Esingle) | “When the symbol is functioning for engagement, the cognitive faculties are held fascinated by and bound to the symbol itself, and are thus simultaneously informed by and protected from the unknown. But when the … |
 | The Thousand and One Nights (Ebook) | Experience the overflowing bounty of the world’s greatest collection of folk myths and fairy tales “Shehrzad was a priestess of the psyche secure in her science. The wonderful ease with which she gave not … |
 | The Tiger in the Depths (eSingle) | For the Christian it makes a difference whether the savior did actually live, but not for the Buddhist. The Buddha, whether he is a mythological image or a fact, is a rendition of the … |
 | The Way of Art | My wife, Jean Erdman, who is a dancer and choreographer, discussing one day the relevance of an appreciation of the psychological connotations of myth to the practice of an art, remarked: “The way of … |
 | Theology, Love, Troubadours, and Minnesingers (Esingle from Romance of the Grail) | The dates for the emergence of the European spirit in its own terms in this secular literature and mythology are between 1150 and 1250. That’s the crucial century here. It’s the century, as I’ve said, of the … |
 | Thou Art That (Ebook) | Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors — and their misinterpretations — with the famed mythologist’s characteristic conversational warmth and accessible scholarship. Campbell’s insights highlight centuries of … |
 | Toward a Natural History of the Gods and Heroes (eSingle) | The exciting prologue to Primitive Mythology The comparative study of the mythologies of the world compels us to view the cultural history of mankind as a unit; for we find that such themes as the … |
 | Trick or Treat: Halloween… (Esingle) | “The make-believe, the play, the humor, the delight is the mythological perspective on life. In the Hindu tradition, the world is said to be “God’s play,” “God’s dance.” When one plays life that way, … |
 | Wanderings (Esingle from Correspondence) | A portrait of the mythologist as a young man The opening section of the exciting collection of Joseph Campbell’s selected letters, Correspondence: 1927—1987, this fascinating follows the fledgling scholar from his early, exciting days … |