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The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II: 2

The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II: 2 Paperback - 1991

by Campbell, Joseph

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  • Title The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II: 2
  • Author Campbell, Joseph
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 2
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1, 1991
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002164219
  • ISBN 9780140194425 / 0140194428
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Mythology, Oriental
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.13

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About this book

Studies the development of man's philosophical views of supreme beings in primitive, Eastern, and Western culture.

Summary

An exploration of Eastern mythology as it developed into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan.

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Joseph Campbell was interested in mythology since his childhood in New York, when he read books about American Indians, frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History, and was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia in 1925 and 1927 and went on to study medieval French and Sanskrit at the universities of Paris and Munich. After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 1940s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The many books by Professor Campbell include The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Myths to Live By, The Flight of the Wild Gander, and The Mythic Image. He edited The Portable Arabian Nights, The Portable Jung, and other works. He died in 1987.

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The myth of eternal return, which is still basic to Oriental life, displays an order of fixed forms that appear and reappear through all time.

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"It is impossible to read this startling and entertaining book without an enlarged sense of total human possibility and an increased receptivity—'open-endedness' as Thomas Mann called it—to the still living past."
—Robert Gorham Davis

About the author

Joseph Campbell was interested in mythology since his childhood in New York, when he read books about American Indians, frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History, and was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia in 1925 and 1927 and went on to study medieval French and Sanskrit at the universities of Paris and Munich. After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 1940s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The many books by Professor Campbell include The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Myths to Live By, The Flight of the Wild Gander, and The Mythic Image. He edited The Portable Arabian Nights, The Portable Jung, and other works. He died in 1987.

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