The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (OT: The Hero with a Thousand Faces ) is a 1949 book published by Joseph Campbell.

Campbell examines the relationships between the life experiences of mankind since their departure, the similarities of all cultures in their oral stories passed and the derived fundamental needs that people have been satisfied with the telling and listening to stories since time immemorial. Influenced by guys idea of individuation, the self-realization of people for the common good according to the courageous confrontation with the volunteer 's own limitations and its own unconscious, he compares heroes in myths, legends, fairy tales and religions around the world and distilled it into a uniform basic structure.

Effective history

Many artists, musicians, poets and filmmakers, among others Bob Dylan, Robert Bly, Jim Morrison, the Grateful Dead rock band, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg rely in your works to the end described in the book 's theory of the Hero's Journey.

Reviews

In 2011, the book in the list of Time magazine one of the 100 best and most influential books in the English language since the founding of the magazine in 1923.

" Campbell's great performance is mainly in the anthology Summary and reworking of an infinite material; from a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of the myths around the world, he develops the comparative method a great and comprehensive monograph and analysis of the hero myth. "

Expenditure

  • Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces ( Paperback Island, Vol 2556 ). Neuausg. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-34256-4 (EA Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1953).
  • Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a thousand faces. 3rd edition, New World Library, Novato, Calif.. 2008, ISBN 978-1-577-31593-3 (EA Pantheon Books, New York 1949).
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