ISBN: Ostalo
Oblast: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1976
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology by Joseph Campbell.


Publisher: Condor Books (an imprint of Souvenir Press, London)

Series: Part of The Masks of God tetralogy (Primitive Mythology • Oriental Mythology • Occidental Mythology • Creative Mythology)

First published: 1964 (originally by Viking Press, New York)

Condor edition: Issued in the UK in 1976

Format: Trade paperback

Lenght: 576 pages

THE MASKS OF GOD: OCCIDENTAL MYTHOLOGY
By Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell’s great series of studies on world mythologies has already earned him a special place in literature. They represent a unique combination of scholarship and imagination, serving as a source of stimulation alike to the historian and the poet, the philosopher and the seeker of the ultimate secrets of human nature and its relation to the universe.
Following Primitive Mythology and Oriental Mythology, Occidental Mythology traces the evolution of the central myths that continue to shape the consciousness of the European West. Campbell follows these traditions back to the cosmology built around the Levantine earth-goddess of the Bronze Age—transformed, but only partly suppressed, by the patriarchal tribal invasions that shaped Judaic and Greek myth. He then examines the interplay of Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, Islam, and Christian Europe upon this matrix of ancient belief.
On one hand, the Bronze Age heritage evolved toward the doctrines of immanence and transcendence in the Orient, where divinity is seen as the eventual aspiration of man. On the other hand, it moved toward the Western view of God and man as creator and creature. “The high function of Occidental myth and ritual,” Campbell concludes, “is to establish a means of relationship, and not identity.”

Yet behind the cultural distinctions Campbell analyzes, he continues to reveal the “unity of the race of man, not only in its biology but also in its spiritual history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony, with its themes announced, developed, amplified, and turned about, distorted, reasserted, and today, in a grand fortissimo of all sections sounding together, irresistibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax, out of which the next great movement will emerge.”

Erich Fromm has written of this volume: “I consider this, as his other books, of outstanding importance and scholarship, clarity, and depth. I believe that anyone truly interested in the science of man will find these books a wealth of data, penetratingly analyzed and written in such a way that he has a chance of digesting them in his own manner.”
Joseph Campbell—educator, author, and editor—was born in New York City in 1904 and educated at Columbia University, the University of Paris, and the University of Munich. Since 1934 he has been a member of the literature faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, and for ten years he served as a trustee of the Bollingen Foundation. He is the author of the classic study of world mythologies collectively titled The Masks of God, as well as The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Flight of the Wild Gander. He also edited The Portable Jung and The Portable Arabian Nights. Joseph Campbell lives in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

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