Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

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A reissued edition--with a new index--of one of the world-famous scholar's most popular books more than 100,000 copies sold, which delineates his basic understanding of mythology and religion.

This will stand alongside Campbell's classics The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God and The Power of Myth.

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A reissued edition--with a new index--of one of the world-famous scholar's most popular books more than 100,000 copies sold, which delineates his basic understanding of mythology and religion.

This will stand alongside Campbell's classics The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God and The Power of Myth.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781577312093
  • Publisher: New World Library
  • Publication date: 1/28/2002
  • Series: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 795,885
  • Product dimensions: 8.70 (w) x 10.46 (h) x 0.75 (d)

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Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) is widely credited with bringing mythology to a mass audience. His works, including the four-volume The Masks of God and The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers), rank among the classics in mythology and literature.

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Table of Contents

About the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell ix

Foreword xi

Introduction: Myth and the Body xiii

Chapter I Cosmology and the Mythic Imagination 1

Chapter II Metaphor As Myth and As Religion 27

The Problem 27

Metaphor As Fact and Fact As Metaphor 31

Metaphors of Psychological Transformation 35

Threshold Figures 40

The Metaphorical Journey 63

Metaphorical Identification 70

The Net of Gems 76

Chapter III The Way of Art 89

Chapter Notes 119

A Joseph Campbell Bibliography 129

Acknowledgments 133

Index 135

About the Author 145

About the Joseph Campbell Foundation 147

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