The Mythic Dimension

Selected Essays 1959-1987 (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Braden Wright

This work presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life.

This second volume of Campbell’s essays (following The Flight of the Wild Gander) brings together his uncollected writings from 1959 to 1987. Written at the height of Campbell’s career - and showcasing the lively intelligence that made him the twentieth century’s premier writer on mythology - these essays investigate the profound links between myth, the individual, and societies ancient and contemporary. Covering diverse terrain ranging from psychology to the occult, from Thomas Mann to the Grateful Dead, from Goddess spirituality to Freud and Jung, these playful and erudite writings reveal the threads of myth woven deeply into the fabric of our culture and our lives.

©1997, 2007 The Joseph Campbell Foundation (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Brilliant book

Another brilliant book by one of my favorite teachers Joseph Campbell. Highly recommended for people of all ages.

Campbell’s research revealed

Well rewa, detailed & famliarw. At UC Berkeley I read Thomas Mann, now I better get the message. When

I loved it!

Using these insights, I am encouraged to venture into the works of the great philosophers.

Narrator is awful

This is a real disservice to Joseph Campbell’s work. The narrator sounds like a robot. It’s pretty unlistenable.