![]() ![]() "Despite the pretense that these are ancient stories conveying what Joseph Campbell would call 'boons from the transcendent deep,' these are basically stories that are told by those in power in order to convince others that they should have power." Keith Dickson, a professor of Classics at Purdue University, says Campbell's work gives people the wrong idea about the purpose of mythology. Yet academic mythologists aren't quite so enamoured by Campbell as his readers are. It's gone through countless reprintings and has been the subject of television specials, like the 1988 Bill Moyers series on PBS, "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth." The Hero With A Thousand Faces was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential books of all time. If everyone is thinking that they're the hero, then there's no possibility of thinking with compassion from the point of view of other people who are experiencing completely different stories as you are." Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces was published in 1949 - a book that is simultaneously timeless, and very much of its time. ![]()
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