Uses of Comparative Mythology Pbdirect Essays on the Work of Joseph Campbell

Part I: The Man 1. The Soul’s High Adventure: Campbell’s Comparative Mythology 2. Freud, Jung, and Campbell 3. Myth Versus Religion for Campbell 4. Interpreting Campbell: Hermeneutics and Comparative Mythology 5. The American Roots of Campbell’s Mythic Vision Part I:The Work 6. The Twin Heroes: Campbell’s Solar/Lunar Vision of the Masculine 7. Campbell on Myth, Romantic Love, and Marriage 8. Campbell and Schopenhauer: Synchronicity and the Tragic Vision 9. Campbell, the Feminine Principle, and the Romantic Male Hero 10. The Chariot of the Hero: Myth and Metaphor in Campbell 11. The Rhetoric of Mythology and Science in Campbell’s Works Part III: The Farther Reaches 12. Campbell and the “Vanilla-Frosted Temple”: From Myth to Multiplex 13. Campbell, Science Fiction, and Space Age Myths 14. Campbell and the Inklings—Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams 15. The Power of Wilderness: Campbell and the Ecological Imperative 16. Campbell, America, and the Individual as New Hero 17. Campbell and the Perennial Philosophy: Social Sciences, Mysticism, and Myth

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Kenneth Golden