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Myths to Live By
Myths to Live By
Author: Joseph Campbell
What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live by, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the imme...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140194616
ISBN-10: 0140194614
Publication Date: 2/1/1993
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Paperback
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Joseph Campbell is one of the most influential thinkers of our century. This paperback contains 12 lectures from a series of 25 talks on mythology that Campbell delivered between 1958 and 1971. Chapters include: the Impact of Science on Myth, The Separation of East and West, Zen, The Mythology of Love and Mythologies of War and Peace.


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