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Title: A Joseph Campbell Companion by Diane K. Osbon ISBN: 0-06-092617-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 21 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Like listening to a wise and trusted friend
Comment: I was hooked after the first sentence: "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are". Campbell talks to us about work and love and the meaning of life with such clarity that we can't argue, or say "Yes, but..." When Campbell is just talking (and not in college professor lecture mode) he gives tidbits that are reminiscent of Lindbergh's "Gift From The Sea". "Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves." And maybe you can learn something about people in your life. "In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of gods...The god you worship is the god you deserve." This is definitely a book to keep and re-read. My favorite thing about it is that you can flip through it, or let it fall open, and you'll find something worthwhile. You don't have to read the whole book all at once to 'get it'.
Rating: 4
Summary: Much better than I anticipated
Comment: When my father, a Humanities professor, first gave me this book to read, I thought that it would just be one more over-idealistic study in eccentricity. I was wrong! The book is very educational and even somewhat practical. Most importantly, it has given me a new philosophy about why some cultures have developed countries and why some don't. The traditional socio-economic division in the world is between the east and west, that is, the "liberal" western tradition and the more convervative and subservient cultures of eastern and southeastern asia (Campbell divides them at the country of Iran). But he also brilliantly realizes that there is another, possibly even more important socio-economic division in the world---north and south! The reason for this is that cultures who live north of the tropic of cancer usually have cold winters, where nothing grows, and they must diligently plan for the grain harvests each year. These northern cultures, which include Japan, Korea, and northern China as well as Europe, must be very organized to deal with the harsh climate, and with this organization eventually came developed nations. This is in contrast to the cultures of the world that live between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn (with the hot equator in the middle). These warm-climate cultures do not need to worry about seasonal changes nearly as much, and spent their free time pursuing other, less organized activities such as superstition and tribal warfare. Thus, in the race to develop their nations, they fell behind by several hundred or even thousands of years. I think that there is nothing politically incorrect about this statement; it is just simply ironic that a culture blessed with a good climate is cursed with a lack of motivation to organize and develop their country. Campbell's hypothesis explains a great deal about the state of world affairs today, and why the northern cultures have generally toned down or abandoned religion, while the warm-climate cultures have embraced superstition and religious fanaticism to the point of world crisis (ex. the middle east).
Rating: 5
Summary: books to live by
Comment: Normally avoiding these types of "companion" works, I usually prefer the complete books and/or essay collections of such seminal thinkers as Campbell.
Not so in this case. This work proves to be an elegant, comprehensive tour of the mind of the really important J.C.
I was surprised to come across as many typos as I did, but this did not terribly distract from an otherwise awesome book, certainly not enough to avoid giving it a five-star rating.
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Title: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers ISBN: 0385418868 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Myths to Live by by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0140194614 Publisher: Arkana Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books) by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0691017840 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1972 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor by Joseph Campbell, Eugene C. Kennedy ISBN: 1577312023 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title:Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth ASIN: B00005MEVQ Publisher: Mystic Fire Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $49.18 |
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