The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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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
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