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Overview: Classic work by American mythologist, Joseph Campbell. Campbell was fascinated with what he viewed as basic, universal truths, expressed in different manifestations across different cultures. In "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", he demonstrate similarities between Eastern and Western religions. In this book, first published by 1949 Campbell’s idea of the monomyth ( a word borrowed from James Joyce), outlined some of the archetypal patterns that Campbell recognized. Heroes were important to Campbell because, to him, they conveyed universal truths about one’s personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two. The relationship of their timeless symbols to those rediscovered in dream by contemporary depth psychology is taken as a starting point for interpretation. A fascinating, thought-provoking study of folklore, myth, and religion where a single hero emerges from behind a thousand faces.
Genre: Comparative Mythology, Comparative Religion, Religious Studies, Classical Studies, Psychology
Explore the Hero’s Journey in stories 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 Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. — Joseph Campbell
Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faceshas influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.
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 continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists—including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers—and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.
Reviews:
- "I have returned to no other book more often since leaving college than this one, and every time I discover new insight into the human journey. Every generation will find in Hero wisdom for the ages."
— Bill Moyers
"In the three decades since I discovered The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 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 [is] a brilliant examination, through ancient hero myths, of man’s eternal struggle for identity."
— Time
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