The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

by Joseph Campbell

The life and thought of Joseph Campbell who was a scholar, philosopher, writer and mythologist.

• ISBN10: 1577314042
• ISBN13: 9781577314042
• Publish Date: 27 August 2003 (first published 12 September 1991)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 May 2014
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: New World Library
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

There are some great bits in this but there is also some appallingly sexist moments.

He did some great work looking at the Hero's journey from the point of view of a man, and what he wrote was seminal, but he just didn't see stories that had women's journeys, maybe because they weren't recorded, maybe because, in the past, it was more important for a woman to remain at home and keep the next generation stable and continuing than go on a journey.

The biggest problem is that now, this is the monomyth, the core that many writers can't see beyond, inversion of roles, changes of roles, he did say that there would be new myths built of our culture, I haven't seen many more than the ones he was starting to identify that centred around money.

Interesting look at some of his ideas.