Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell fue un autor y académico estadounidense reconocido por sus contribuciones a la mitología comparada. Nacido en Nueva York en 1904, desarrolló una fascinación temprana por la mitología, especialmente las culturas nativas americanas, lo cual moldeó sus intereses académicos. Su obra fundamental, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", publicada en 1949, estableció su teoría del monomito - un patrón universal de narrativas heroicas presente en diversas culturas. Este estudio innovador, junto con su serie de cuatro volúmenes "The Masks of God", consolidó su reputación como una autoridad líder en narrativa mítica.

La formación académica de Campbell abarcó literatura medieval, psicología y religiones del mundo, influenciado por figuras como Carl Jung, James Joyce y Sigmund Freud. Tras estudiar en la Universidad de Columbia e instituciones europeas, impartió clases en Sarah Lawrence College durante décadas mientras colaboraba en traducciones de textos hindúes como "The Upanishads". Su enfoque interdisciplinario combinaba arte, literatura y antropología, culminando en obras como "Myths to Live By" y "The Historical Atlas of World Mythology". Las ideas de Campbell alcanzaron audiencia global mediante sus entrevistas de 1988 para PBS con Bill Moyers, publicadas póstumamente como "The Power of Myth", que popularizaron su exploración sobre la relevancia perdurable de la mitología en la experiencia humana.
The Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell Books
# Título Año
1 Call of the Hero 1992
2 Mythological Musings: Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell 2 1993
The Masks of God Books
# Título Año
1 Primitive Mythology, Volume 1 1959
2 Oriental Mythology, Volume 2 1962
3 Occidental Mythology, Volume 3 1964
4 Creative Mythology, Volume 4 1968
The Way of the Animal Powers Part Books
# Título Año
1 Way of the Animal Powers, Part 1 1988
2 The Way of the Animal Powers Part 2 1988
The Way of the Seeded Earth Books
# Título Año
1 Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Vol II, Part 3: Mythologies of the primitive planters: the Middle and Southern Americas 1988
2 Historical Atlas of World Mythology Vol II: The Way of the Seeded Earth Part 1: The Sacrifice 1988
3 Historical Atlas of World Mythology Vol II: The Way of the Seeded Earth Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas 1989
Libros de no ficción
# Título Año
1 A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (With: Henry Morton Robinson, Edmund L. Epstein) 1944
2 Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks 1954
3 Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 2: The Mysteries 1955
4 Man and Transformation 1964
5 Tarot Revelations 1987
6 Transformations of Myth Through Time 1990
7 Western Quest 1999
8 The Historical Development Of Mythology 2011
9 Sermons by the Late Joseph Campbell 2015
10 The Rushlight 2016
11 Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 4: Spiritual Disciplines 2017
12 The Ultimate Compendium of Joseph Campbell’s Best Sayings (With: Joseph Marty) 2022
13 Myth and Meaning: Conversations on Mythology and Life (With: Stephen Gerringer) 2023
Joseph Campbel's Biographies & Memoirs (with Michael Toms)
# Título Año
1 An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms 1988
Historical Atlas of World Mythology Books
# Título Año
1 Historical Atlas of World Mythology 1: The Way of the Animal Powers 1983
2 Historical Atlas World Myth, Vol 3 2006
3 Prologue: Historical Atlas of World Mythology Part I.A (With: Robert Walter) 2013
4 I.E: Living Peoples of the Equatorial Forest Book 5) (With: Robert Walter) 2014
5 I.D: Early Hunters of the Open Plains Book 4) (With: Robert Walter) 2015
6 I.F: Art as a Revelation Book 6) (With: Robert Walter) 2017
Inner Journey Books
# Título Año
1 The Inner Journey: Views from the Buddhist Tradition (By: Philip Novak) 2005
2 The Inner Journey: Myth, Psyche, and Spirit (With: Thomas Moore, Mircea Eliade, Martha Heyneman) 2008
Joseph Campbell and Power of Myth Books (with Bill Moyers)
# Título Año
1 The Power of Myth 1988
2 The Message of the Myth: Power of Myth 2 1990
3 Masks of Eternity: Power of Myth 6 1990
4 Sacrifice and Bliss: Power of Myth 4 1990
5 The Hero's Adventure: Power of Myth 1 1992
6 Love and the Goddess: Power of Myth 5 1992
7 The First Storytellers: Power of Myth 3 1992
Joseph Campbell and Power of Myth Books in Chronological Order
# Título Año
1 The Hero's Adventure: Power of Myth 1 1992
2 The Message of the Myth: Power of Myth 2 1990
3 The First Storytellers: Power of Myth 3 1992
4 Sacrifice and Bliss: Power of Myth 4 1990
5 Love and the Goddess: Power of Myth 5 1992
6 Masks of Eternity: Power of Myth 6 1990
7 The Power of Myth 1988
The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Books
# Título Año
1 The Hero with a Thousand Faces 1949
2 The Flight of the Wild Gander 1969
3 Myths to Live By 1972
4 The Inner Reaches of Outer Space 1986
5 The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (By: Phil Cousineau) 1990
6 A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (With: Robert Walter, Diane K. Osbon, Diane Osbon) 1991
7 Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (With: Phil Cousineau, Edmund L. Epstein) 1993
8 Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals-India (With: Antony Van Couvering, Robin Larsen) 1995
9 The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-87 (With: Antony Van Couvering) 1997
10 Mythic Imagination 1997
11 Thou Art That (With: Eugene Kennedy) 2001
12 Myths of Light ( By: David Kudler) 2003
13 Pathways to Bliss ( By: David Kudler) 2004
14 Goddesses 2013
15 Romance of the Grail (With: Evans Lansing Smith) 2015
16 Asian Journals: India and Japan 2017
17 The Ecstasy of Being 2017
18 The Thousand and One Nights (With: Anonymous, John Payne) 2017
19 Correspondence: 1927–1987 (With: Evans Lansing Smith, Dennis Patrick Slattery) 2019
Joseph Campbell Anthologies
# Título Año
1 Voices and Visions 1974