Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
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Book Reviews of Myths to Live By
Book Review: A great book, though sometimes hit or miss
Summary: 4 Stars
How should myths be used in our personal lives? Are they important? What Campbell did for this book was to take a bunch of lectures he had given in the 60s and early 70s and collect them for this book. Therefore, to my mind, they seemed a bit disjointed. Some chapters were much more interesting and relevant than others (heck, some of them I didn't really feel even related to the theme of the book). But overall, there were a lot of good ideas and thoughts in this book, especially the chapter on schizophrenia.Book Review: Eye Opening
Summary: 4 Stars
This book, like other Campbell works really speaks to your soul to help you grasp the nature of our times. As one reviewer said, if you read it at the right time of your life, it can completely change you.I highly reccomend this or any Campbell work.
Book Review: Mythology at it's best
Summary: 4 Stars
Brilliant! The Master of Mythology. If you are into reading spiritual text such as Deepak, Eckhart...this provides the foundation to where they have gone.Book Review: Good!
Summary: 4 Stars
Came in on time and was as just like it was detailed in it review. And dont forget to get a dictionary the books wording is out of this world.
Book Review: not his best....
Summary: 3 Stars
....by any means, though Campbell's erudition and clarity are always interesting and impressive.To the well-stated critics of other reviewers I would add that Campbell's view of war as instinctive (a very Freudian notion, of course) does not prove helpful or illuminate the social conditions that create class and power imbalances characteristic of warlike cultures. He is correct, however, that the American Eagle is an appropriate symbol for our nation: not for the reason he states (arrows in one talon and olive branch in the other), but because the eagle ours resembles, the Imperial Eagle of Rome, flapped its wings over another militarized and hubris-infected empire bent on political and economic domination (nowadays called "global leadership").
Books like THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES and THE POWER OF MYTH provide less biased introductions to Campbell's thought...and in fairness to him, he did grow beyond some of those biases, as is evident in video interviews conducted in his later years.