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The Hero with a Thousand Faces Second Edition
Author(s): Joseph Campbell (Author)
- Publisher: New World Library
- Publication Date: July 28, 2008
- Edition: Second
- Language: English
- Print length: 432 pages
- ISBN-10: 1577315936
- ISBN-13: 9781577315933
Book Description
As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.
As relevant today as when it was first published,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Second Edition continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artistsincluding authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakersand continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.Editorial Reviews
Review
— Bill Moyers
“In the three decades since I discovered
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Second Edition, it has continued to fascinate and inspire me. Joseph Campbell peers through centuries and shows us that we are all connected by a basic need to hear stories and understand ourselves. As a book, it is wonderful to read; as illumination into the human condition, it is a revelation.”— George Lucas
“Campbell’s words carry extraordinary weight, not only among scholars but among a wide range of other people who find his search down mythological pathways relevant to their lives today….The book for which he is most famous,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Second Edition [is] a brilliant examination, through ancient hero myths, of man’s eternal struggle for identity.”— Time
“In the long run, the most influential book of the twentieth century may turn out to be Joseph Campbell’s
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Second Edition.”— Christopher Vogler
“Watching [Campbell] perform these staggering acts of synthesis—he’ll toss together, say, Jungian archetype, Sumerian mythology, the Roman Apuleius, shamanism and Lancelot into the space of a few pages—is breathtaking.”
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