American mythologist, writer, and lecturer (1904–1987)
For other uses, see Joseph Campbell (disambiguation).
Joseph Campbell
Campbell in the late 1970s
Born
Joseph John Campbell
(1904-03-26)March 26, 1904
White Plains, New York, U.S.
Died
October 30, 1987(1987-10-30) (aged 83)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Spouse
Jean Erdman
(m. 1938)
Academic background
Education
Dartmouth College Columbia University (BA, MA)
Academic advisors
Roger Sherman Loomis[1]
Influences
Adolf Bastian
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx
Charles Darwin
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Oswald Spengler
James George Frazer
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Heinrich Zimmer
James Joyce
Thomas Mann
Arthur Schopenhauer
Leo Frobenius
Rudolf Otto[2]
Academic work
Discipline
Literature
Sub-discipline
Comparative mythology
Institutions
Sarah Lawrence College
Notable works
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
Notable ideas
Monomyth
Influenced
George Lucas
Alan Watts[3]
Jim Morrison
Christopher Vogler[4][5]
Dan Harmon
Keith Buckley
Buddy Nielsen
Chuck Palahniuk
Dave Carter
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.
Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theories have been applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: "Follow your bliss."[6] He gained recognition in Hollywood when George Lucas credited Campbell's work as influencing his Star Wars saga.[7]
Campbell's approach to folklore topics such as myth and his influence on popular culture has been the subject of criticism, especially from academic folklorists.[8][9][10]
^Young 2005, p. 420.
^Bilodeau 1993; Gorman 2014, p. 76.
^Larsen & Larsen 2002, p. 435.
^"Vogler's Look at Mythic Structure Is Universally Valuable". August 15, 2011.
^"Are You Monomythic? Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey". June 25, 2014.
^Campbell's biography and Joseph Campbell: "Follow Your Bliss" from the Joseph Campbell Foundation website.
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