![]() ![]() ![]() In my mind, Joseph Campbell would become to mythology what Andrea Bocelli would later be to opera.ĭespite the similar contempt for him that anthropologists and folklorists would express over the years, Campbell clearly succeeded in making mythology go mainstream, and his flagship book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) made him a beloved household name in America. I eventually came to accept him as a flawed father figure a virtuous storyteller whose main contribution to the field was not in the quality of his thoughts but in their popularization. Having once sparked my passion for mythology, I found that the deeper I dove into its sources, the shallower Campbell’s thoughts appeared to be. You see, after imprinting on him like a baby bird, Campbell naturally became my subject of parental de-idealization. Joseph Campbell and the First Storytellers | ![]()
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