By contrast, the second half was heavy sledding. Perhaps it’s because such myths as virgin births don’t resonate with me.įor whatever reason, I read the first half of The Hero with a Thousand Faces with great excitement and enjoyment.
Perhaps it’s because, intellectually, I can’t keep up with him. Perhaps this is why so much of it, particularly the second half, seems so esoteric and arcane. There is much about Joseph Campbell’s 1948 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces that I find problematic.Ĭampbell displays amazing erudition in this book and a vast knowledge of the mythologies, literatures and sacred writings of cultures from one end of the globe to the other.
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