Who Was Joseph Campbell and How Does He Relate to Cosolargy
Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all categories of human thought. . . . It’s as simple as that. —Joseph Campbell, in an interview with Gary Abrams of the Los Angeles Times
Joseph Campbell was born on March 26, 1904, into a staunch Roman Catholic family and enjoyed an upper-class upbringing in New York State. He undertook academic studies at Columbia University and at the University of Munich, where he studied Sanskrit and Indo-European philology. In 1934 he began his teaching career at Sarah Lawrence College and soon after married dancer and choreographer Jean Erdman. Between the years 1949 and 1983, he published his major works on comparative mythology. His work covers many aspects of the human experience, including mythology, religion, literature, and psychology.
Campbell’s best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the hero’s journey, an archetype shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth. He also wrote extensively on the symbolism of mythology, and his work has been influential in a wide range of fields, including psychology, philosophy, literature, and film. He died in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1987 and is buried there.
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