Joseph Campbell

Conversations between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a television journalist, discussing mythology and our ties to the past.

"In this third volume of The Masks of God--Joseph Campbell's series on comparative mythology--the preeminent mythologist examines the common themes and historical development of the pagan religions of Greece, Rome, and the Celts, along with the major monotheistic religions of the West (Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)"--

Explore the power of myth as it exploded from medieval Europe into the modern world

In this fourth volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology — the pre-eminent mythologist looks at the birth of the modern, individualistic mythology as it developed in Europe beginning in the twelfth century A.D. up through the modernist art of the twentieth century.

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Suggests that the laws of physics that govern the universe are also at play within the human consciousness.

"A collection of letters to and from the American academic and writer Joseph Campbell; includes correspondence with notable thinkers such as Thomas Mann, Carl Gustav Jung, Margaret Mead, Mircea Eliade, Alan Watts, and Gary Snyder"--

Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the themes and roots of human myth which is seen as man's attempt to relate himself to the universe. Starting with various topics Campbell shows both how man creates his universe and is controlled by the myth he has created.

Examines the myth-making process since primitive times to demonstrate the ways in which specific myths reflect human needs.

As relevant today as when it was first released, Faces of the enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he unmasks how individuals and nations dehumanize their enemies to justify the inhumanity of war. Using archival news footage, public service announcements, and editorial cartoons, Keen unveils the same frightening pattern in conflict after conflict - World War II, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, Islamic and Christian Fundamentalism - and prefigures...