Joseph Campbell

birth

Joseph Campbell was born in White Plains, New York, on March 26, 1904, the elder son of hosiery importer and wholesaler Charles William Campbell, from Waltham, Massachusetts, and Josephine (née Lynch), from New York.

bliss

Follow your bliss Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1988)

computers

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1988)

death

Campbell died at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 30, 1987, from complications of esophageal cancer.

life

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1988)

portrait

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tags

treasure

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell

Wikidata

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Wikipedia

Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia) Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell’s best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.