Joseph Campbell was een Amerikaanse auteur en docent, bekend om zijn werk op het gebied van vergelijkende mythologie. Zijn uitgebreide onderzoek toonde aan dat, ondanks culturele verschillen, alle mythen en epics binnen de menselijke psyche met elkaar verbonden zijn. Campbell stelde dat deze mythen manifestaties zijn van een universele menselijke behoefte om de werkelijkheid te verklaren. Zijn geschriften verkennen diepe patronen van archetypische reizen die resoneren door menselijke verhalen en culturen, en bieden lezers een uniek perspectief op gedeelde menselijke ervaringen.
Ondanks de eindeloze verscheidenheid van handeling, plaats en aankleding ligt er een vast patroon ten grondslag aan de mythen en legenden uit de hele wereld. In De held met de duizend gezichten brengt Campbell deze mythen samen. Gebruikmakend van de psychologie van Freud en Jung vergelijkt Campbell vervolgens de primitieve mythologie met de droomtoestand bij de moderne mens en interpreteert hij de mythologie, met fascinerende psychologische gevolgtrekkingen.
Celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell shares his intimate and inspiring reflections on the art of living in this beautifully packaged book, part of a new series to be based on his unpublished writings.
Advanced Practical Cookery, 4th edition, has been fully revised and updated to match the latest specifications at levels 3 and Foundation degrees . Now in paperback and with specially commissioned full colour photographs throughout, this essential resource for the highest training levels includes over 600 international recipes, all specifically tailored for the skilled craft student and chef. Examining new advanced units introduced by City & Guilds in detail, this new edition is also written and designed with the student reader in mind, and now includes nutrition and healthy eating advice, tips and essential kitchen advice. The contributions of executive chef and new co-author John Campbell also bring a unique industry focus to the content, ensuring the text is targeted specifically at the needs of trainee chefs and professionals alike. Contemporary, accessible and above all practical, Advanced Practical Cookery, 4th edition, is the ideal ingredient for advanced food preparation and cooking techniques.
The third volume in Campbell's monumental four-volume series, The Masks of God, traces the mythological underpinnings of Western religion: the shift from female-centered to male-dominated mythology Once upon a time in the West, the focal figure of all mythology and worship was the bountiful Goddess Earth. She reigned supreme as the mother and nourisher of life and as the receiver of the dead for rebirth. How, when, and why did this change? As Campbell here elucidates, She was more than a symbol of fertility; she was "a metaphysical symbol: the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die." Campbell shows how the mythologies of the goddess were radically transformed, reinterpreted, and in large measure suppressed "by those suddenly intrusive patriarchal warrior tribesmen whose traditions have come down to us chiefly in the Old and New Testaments and in the myths of Greece." Campbell goes on to describe the mythological underpinnings of Western religion -- Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism -- and their historical influence on one another. No one who cares about history, mythology, or past or current events in the lands from whence we came can do without this venerable yet remarkably contemporary analysis.
In this climax to his series of studies on world mythologies, the author examines a process he sees as beginning in the mid-twelfth century in the west - an accelerating disintegration of the orthodox tradition.
The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.
