Works by
Joseph Campbell
(Writer)
[March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987]

Audio

1. Man and Myth Joseph Campbell Audio Collection (2002)

2. Myth and Metaphor in Society: A Conversation With Joseph Campbell and Jamake Highwater (2002)

3. Joseph Campbell Audio Collection (1997)

   • Volume 1: Mythology and the Individual

   • Volume 2: Inward Journey: East and West

   • Volume 3: The Eastern Way

   • Volume 4: Man and Myth

   • Volume 5: The Myths and Masks of God

   • Volume 6: Western Quest

4. The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell (1997) with Michael Toms
   For the past two decades, Michael Toms, the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated New Dimensions interview series, has been exploring personal, social, and global transformation through his work as an electronic journalist and writer. Over a span of 12 years (1975 to 1987), Toms recorded conversations between the late Joseph Campbell (author of The Power of Myth) and himself, during which they developed a close friendship.
   
   On this compact disc, on which Campbell brings us in touch with our mythic heritage, he and Toms generate an infectious excitement as they explore the far reaches of meaning and thought. In these stimulating conversations, central questions in humanity's quest for meaning, understanding, and knowledge of the spiritual universe in which we live are explored.
   
   Topics such as "The Eternal Quest," "Mythic Horizons," and "Following Your Bliss" will provoke imaginative thinking and an appreciation of one's humanity.

5. Wings of Art: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (1995)

6. The Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell Volume 1-9 (1993) with Michael Toms)
   Audio cassettes.

   1. Myths, Personal Dreams, and Universal Themes

   2. Mythological Musings

   3. The Myth of the Fool and Other Tales

   4. A Conversation with Joseph Campbell

   5. Joseph Campbell: Man of a Thousand Myths

   6. Myth as a Metaphor

   7. Ancient Voices

   8. Call of the Hero

   9. Beyond Dogma: The Vision Quest Experience

7. The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Cosmogonic Cycle (1990), read by Ralph Blum

8. The Way of Art (1990)

9. Transformation of Myth Through Time (1989)
   The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.

10. The Power of Myth (1987) with Bill Moyers
    This extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant  evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology.

Biography/Memoirs

• The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell On His Life and Work (1999)
  Using the themes of Joseph Campbell's own 'Hero with a Thousand Faces' including 'The Call to Adventure', 'The Vision Quest', the great cycle of the hero's journey and ' The Return', this lyrical and masterfully crafted book follows the path of Campbell's lifelong investigation into the world of mythology. Autobiographical in its nature, this volume is the collection of a series of exclusive interviews, in which Campbell tells his own story, from his Catholic upbringing and early interest in Native American culture, through Paris in the 1920's, and into the world of such modern myth makers such as George Lucas. In dealing with the essence of human nature through the ages and its struggle with the deep, imponderable 'truths' that still mystify us, Campbell shows that these questions are answered in every culture by mythic tales, the human way of making sense of the world. Through his lectures and conversations with such figures as poet Robert Bly, Native American author Jamake Highwater, and anthropologist Angeles Arrien, Campbell reflects on subjects ranging from the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist, and the need for ritual, to the ordeals of love and romance. Illustrated throughout with photographs from Joseph Campbell's family archive, The Hero's Journey introduces us first-hand to Joseph Campbell the man, his discoveries, his terminology, and his thinking.

• An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in conversation with Michael Toms (1999) with Michael Toms
  In the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.

Non-fiction

• Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (2004), David Kudler, ed.
  Joseph Campbell is one of this century's great disseminators of the psychological wisdom of mythology. One of the basic functions of myth, he contends, is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a travel guide to reach fulfillment — a map to discover "bliss." In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell once again draws on his masterful gift of storytelling to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and transformation. Looking at the more personal, psychological side of myth, he begins to dwell on life's more important questions — those that are often submerged beneath the frantic activity of our daily life. With characteristic wit and insight, he draws connections between ancient symbols and modern art, schizophrenia and the Hero's Journey, revealing the way myth helps identify one's heroic path.

• Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (2003), David Kudler, ed.
  Following such volumes as Baksheesh and Brahman, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, and Thou Art That, this previously unpublished title is Volume six in the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. It shows Campbell’s remarkable mind engaged with a favorite topic, the myths and metaphors of Asian religions. Myths of Light collects seven lectures and articles on subjects ranging from the ancient Hindu Vedas to Zen koans, Tantric yoga, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. A worthy companion to Campbell’s Asian journals, this volume conveys complex insights through warm, accessible storytelling, revealing the intricacies and secrets of his subjects with his typical enthusiasm.

• Sake and Satori: Asian Journals - Japan (2002), David Kudler, ed.
  In this second volume of his Asian journals, Campbell reports on his travels through east Asia and his five-month stay in Japan. Sake and Satori includes the never-before-published sequel to Campbell’s Baksheesh and Brahman and covers the author’s journeys through Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. It offers a snapshot of 1950s Asia and its rapidly changing postcolonial and Cold War tensions. Campbell shares his experiences with Noh drama, Kabuki theater, and geisha houses, and explores how Asia absorbs and resists Western notions of gender, pluralism, and wealth. He relates conversations with fellow travelers, scholars, and Japanese people from all walks of life. Along the way, his asides develop into philosophical explorations augmented with photos and drawings.

• Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (2001), Eugene Kennedy, ed.
  Thou Art That is a compilation of previously uncollected essays and lectures by Joseph Campbell that focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here Campbell explores common religious symbols, reexamining and reinterpreting them in the context of his remarkable knowledge of world mythology. According to Campbell, society often confuses the literal and metaphorical interpretations of religious stories and symbols. In this collection, he eloquently reestablishes these metaphors as a means to enhance spiritual understanding and mystical revelation. With characteristic verve, he ranges from rich storytelling to insightful comparative scholarship. Included is editor Eugene Kennedy’s classic interview with Campbell in The New York Times Magazine, which brought the scholar to the public’s attention for the first time.

• Baksheesh and Brahman: Indian Journals (1954-1955) (1995), Anthony Van Couvering, Robin Larsen, and Stephen Larsen, eds.
  After ten years of intensive study of Indian art and philosophy, Joseph Campbell, at 50, finally embarked on a journey to India. Searching for the transcendent (Brahman), he found instead stark realities: growing nationalism, religious rivalry, poverty, and a prevalent culture of what he called “baksheesh,” or alms. This journal chronicles the disillusionment and revelation that would change the course of Campbell’s life and study, and his transition from professor to counterculture icon. Balancing Campbell’s astute explorations of mythology and history are his often amusing observations of a sometimes frustrating alien culture and his fellow Western travelers. This account also includes personal photographs, specially commissioned maps, and illustrations redrawn from Campbell’s own hand.

• Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce (1993), Edmund L. Epstein, ed.
  In 1927 Joseph Campbell was given clues to reading James Joyce’s labyrinthine Ulysses by its original publisher Sylvia Beach and, as he said, it changed his career. His discoveries became the foundation for his later work in comparative mythology. To analyze Ulysses and Joyce’s other works, he employed depth psychology, anthropology, religion, and art history as tools. A treasure for Joyce and Campbell fans alike, Mythic Worlds, Modern Words collects 60 years of Campbell’s writings, lectures, and other commentary on Joyce, including exchanges with his audiences and Campbell's 1941 Joyce obituary.

• The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays (1959-1987) (1993), Anthony Van Couvering, ed.
  Gathered together here for the first time are twelve eclectic,far-ranging, and brilliant essays exploring myth in all its dimensions:its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life. Written at the height of Joseph Campbell's career -- and showcasing the lively and learned intelligence that made him thepremier writer on mythology of our times -- these essays investigatethe profound links between myth and history, the arts, and modern life.From psychology to the occult, from Thomas Mann to the Grateful Dead, from Goddess spirituality to Freud and Jung, these playful anderudite writings reveal the threads of myth woven deeply into thefabric of our culture and our lives.

• Reflections on the Art of LivingA Joseph Campbell Companion (1991), Diane K. Osbon, ed.
  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.

• Transformation of Myth Through Time (1990)
  The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.

• Tarot Revelations (1987) with Richard Roberts
  Tarot Revelations is an analysis of the mysterious philosophy in the ancient cards that became modern playing cards. Citing Dante, C.G.Jung, and early Gnostics and alchemists, Campbell and Roberts reveal a path that has spiritual meaning for everyone. Writing in collaboration with Richard Roberts, Joseph Campbell stated, "We have come to revelations of a grandiose poetic vision of Universal Man that has been for centuries the inspiration of saints and sinners, sages and fools, in kaleidoscopic transformations." According to Richard Roberts, "In the 22 cards comprising the Major Arcana, we have a genuine document of the soul's initiation into higher consciousness. As such the Major Arcana may be interpreted as a Western Book of the Dead."

• The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion (1986)
  Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell’s last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure."

• The Mythic Image (1974)
  Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to weave tales from every corner of the world into compelling, even spellbinding, narratives. His interest in comparative mythology began in childhood, when the young Joe Campbell was taken to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Madison Square Garden. He started writing articles on Native American mythology in high school, and the parallels between age-old myths and the mythic themes in literature and dreams became a lifelong preoccupation. Campbell's best-known work is The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), which became a New York Times paperback best-seller for Princeton in 1988 after Campbell's star turn on the Bill Moyers television program The Power of Myth.
  
  During his early years as a professor of comparative religion at Sarah Lawrence College, Campbell made the acquaintance of Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, a kindred spirit who introduced him to Paul and Mary Mellon, the founders of Bollingen Series. They chose Campbell's The Mythic Image as the culmination of the series, giving it the closing position--number one hundred. A lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations, The Mythic Image received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review upon publication. Through the medium of visual art, the book explores the relation of dreams to myth and demonstrates the important differences between oriental and occidental interpretations of dreams and life.

• Erotic Irony: And Mythic Forms in the Art of Thomas Mann (1973)

• Myths to Live By (1972)

• The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension -- Select Essays, 1944-1968 (1951)
  The origins and symbolisms of mythology over time, as revealed by Joseph Campbell.

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949, 1972, 2004, 2008)
  Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.
  
  As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.
  
  As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists—including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers—and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.

• A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) with Henry Morton Robinson
  Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of Finnegans Wake. The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify — and clarify — its complex web of images and allusions. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake is the latest addition to the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series.

• Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremonial (1943) with Jeff King and Maud Oakes
  This work takes its title from the richly symbolic creation legend of the Navaho people, which they incorporated into their blessing ceremony for tribe members headed to battle. Having observed this rite during World War II, when native Americans were for the first time drafted into the U.S. military, ethnologist Maud Oakes recorded the legend and made reproductions of the beautiful ceremonial paintings, given to her by the medicine man Jeff King. Originally printed separately in a portfolio, the text and eighteen paintings are now available as a bound book.

Historical Atlas of World Mythology

• Volume I: The Way of Animal Powers (1983)

  • Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers (1988)

  • Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt (1988)

• Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth

  • Part 1: The Sacrifice (1988)

  • Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The North Americas (1989)

  • Part 3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas (1989)

The Masks of God (1959–1968)

• Volume 1, Primitive Mythology (1959)

• Volume 2, Oriental Mythology (1962)

• Volume 3, Occidental Mythology (1964)

• Volume 4, Creative Mythology (1968)

Video/DVD

• Sukhavati: A Mythic Journey (2005)
  DVDi  VHS

• Transformations of Myth Through Time (1989)
  VHS

• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988)
  DVD  VHS

• Mythos (1987/1998)
  DVD Disk 1, Disk 2,  VHS (5 Tapes)

• The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell (1987) with Phil Cousineau
  DVD VHS

Other

• Joseph Campbell, Follow Your Bliss 2009 Wall Calendar (2008)
  Amber Lotus is pleased to present the Joseph Campbell: Follow Your Bliss 2009 wall calendar, featuring the insights of world-renowned scholar Joseph Campbell. Published in conjunction with the Joseph Campbell Foundation, this calendar features inspiring quotes from Mr. Campbell paired with an artful selection of photographs that vividly illustrate his enlightened teachings. Joseph Campbell was a life-long student and teacher of mythology and the human spirit. His focus was not just on cultures long dead, but on living myth as it manifests in modern culture and influences society. He observed that all myths carry a unifying thread - humankind's yearning for deeper meaning and individual purpose. The drive to discover one's true meaning is what Mr. Campbell called the passion to 'follow your bliss.' Joseph Campbell authored many best-selling books, including The Power of Myth, Hero with a Thousand Faces and Myths to Live By.

• The Follow Your Bliss Deck: 52 Inspiration Cards (2005)
  Joseph Campbell held a unique place in the culture for his ability to bring the healing power of myth and archetype to contemporary audiences. This simple, beautifully designed collection of cards continues that work, helping readers connect to wisdom ancient and modern on a daily basis. Including a built-in prop-up frame for display, Follow Your Bliss contains timeless quotes from a wide range of Campbell’s work, divided into four guiding themes from his teachings: The Psychological, The Sociological, The Cosmological, and The Metaphysical. Practical yet provocative, each card features the brushstroke Zen circle that is the imprimatur of The Joseph Campbell Foundation, with a distinct color for each category in the deck. Enclosed in a box with an intricate tapestry border design, Follow Your Bliss is an ideal gift for both the committed seeker and the casual reader looking for simple guidance in a chaotic world.

See also:

• The Inner Journey: Myth, Psyche, and Spirit (2008)
  With contributions by Joseph Campbell and  Mircea Eliade

• Myth & the Body - A Colloquy with Joseph Campbell (1999) with Stanley Keleman
  In 1973, Two pioneers in their respective fields - Stanley Keleman and Joseph Campbell - began to hold what would be fourteen annual seminars, ceasing only with Campbell's death, to trade their well-honed thoughts on the subject of mythology and the body.
  
  Their talks ranged over a vast number of subjects, but the two friends found themselves returning again and again to ponder the meaning they found in the story that lies at the very heart of Western thought: Parsifal and the quest for the Holy Grail.
  
  Whether your interest lies in psychology or mythology - or both - you are sure to be fascinated by the connections forged by two original and celebrated thinkers.

• The Politics of Myth: A Study of C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell (1999) by Robert S. Ellwood
  See also Mircea Eliade

• The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers (1998) by Christopher Vogler

• Star Wars: The Magic of Myth (1997) by Mary Henderson

• Myth Conceptions: Joseph Campbell and the New Age (1995) by Tom Snyder

• Paths To The Power Of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion (1994), Daniel C. Noel, ed.

• The Way of the Myth: Talking with Joseph Campbell (1994) with Fraser Boa

• Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority: A Critique of Frazer, Eliot, Frye, and Campbell (1992) by Marc Manganaro

• Uses of Comparative Mythology: Essays on the Work of Joseph Campbell (1992) by Kenneth L. Golden

• The Joseph Campbell Phenomenon: Implications for the Contemporary Church (1992), Lawrence Madden, ed.

• Joseph Campbell : A Fire in the Mind (1991) by Robin Larsen and Stephen Larsen

• Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (1987) by Robert Segal