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9781608681105

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

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    9781608681105

  • ISBN10:

    1608681106

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-07-10
  • Publisher: New World Library

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Summary

In these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology? How can we recognize it? Campbell explores these questions in the concluding essay, “The Way of Art,” in which he demonstrates that metaphor is the language of art and argues that within the psyches of today’s artists are the seeds of tomorrow’s mythologies.

Campbell writes in his introduction: “My desire and great pleasure in the preparation of this little volume has been as rendering a return gift to the Graces for the transforming insights of these recent years, which...we have been testing out in a broadly shared spiritual adventure.”

Author Biography

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) is widely credited with bringing mythology to a mass audience. His works, including the four-volume The Masks of God and The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers), rank among the classics in mythology and literature.

Table of Contents

About the Collected Works of Joseph Campbellp. ix
Forewordp. xi
Introduction: Myth and the Bodyp. xiii
Cosmology and the Mythic Imaginationp. 1
Metaphor As Myth and As Religionp. 27
The Problemp. 27
Metaphor As Fact and Fact As Metaphorp. 31
Metaphors of Psychological Transformationp. 35
Threshold Figuresp. 40
The Metaphorical Journeyp. 63
Metaphorical Identificationp. 70
The Net of Gemsp. 76
The Way of Artp. 89
Chapter Notesp. 119
A Joseph Campbell Bibliographyp. 129
Acknowledgmentsp. 133
Indexp. 135
About the Authorp. 145
About the Joseph Campbell Foundationp. 147
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