what did joseph campbell do??

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okay.. i don't need his life summary i just want to know what he did! for example: Darren shan is an author, he wrote cirque du freak books.... just tell me what he did ( joseph campbell) thanks all!!!

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Answer 1

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

Joseph Campbell was born and raised in White Plains, New York[1] in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family. As a child, Campbell became fascinated with Native American culture when his father took him to see the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Native American society, primarily in its mythology. This led to Campbell's lifelong passion with myth and to his mapping and study of its seemingly cohesive threads among disparate human cultures.

Answer 2

A fundamental belief of Campbell was that all spirituality is a search for the same basic, unknown force from which everything came, within which everything currently exists, and into which everything will return. This elemental force is ultimately “unknowable” because it is before words and knowledge. Even though this basic driving force cannot be expressed in words, spiritual rituals and stories refer to the force through the use of "metaphors" - the metaphors being the various stories, deities and objects of spirituality in the world. For example, the Genesis myth in the Bible is not to be taken as a literal description of actual events, but rather its poetic, metaphorical meaning is to be examined for clues about the fundamental truths of the world.

Accordingly, Campbell believed all the religions of the world to be “masks” of the same fundamental, transcendent truths. All religions, including Christianity and Buddhism, can be an elevated awareness above “pairs of opposites,” such as being and non-being, or right and wrong. Indeed, he states in the preface of The Hero with a Thousand Faces: "Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names." which is a translation of the Rig Vedic saying "Ekam Sat Vipra Bahuda Vadanthi."

Campbell was fascinated by what he viewed as basic, universal truths, expressed in different manifestations in different cultures. For example, in the preface of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he indicated that a goal was to demonstrate similarities between Eastern and Western religions. In his four-volume series of books "The Masks of God", Campbell tried to summarize the main spiritual threads throughout the world. Tied in with this was the idea that many of the belief systems of the world which expressed these universal truths had a common geographic ancestry, starting off on the fertile grasslands of Europe in the Bronze Age and moving to the Levant and the "Fertile Crescent" of Mesopotamia and back to Europe (and the Far East), where it was mixed with the newly emerging Indo-European (Aryan) culture.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell#Campbell.27s_influences_on_others for more information.

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Okay. . . I'm not going to quote you from the Wikipedia, like others here. LOL I'm going to tell you what I think of when I think of Joseph Campbell.....

A brilliant writer and historian, best remembered for his works on culture and mythology, and on the history of the English language.

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Answer 6

Made Campbell's soup.♠

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Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

Life

Childhood
Joseph Campbell was born and raised in White Plains, New York[1] in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family. As a child, Campbell became fascinated with Native American culture when his father took him to see the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Native American society, primarily in its mythology. This led to Campbell's lifelong passion with myth and to his mapping and study of its seemingly cohesive threads among disparate human cultures.


Education
While at Dartmouth College he studied biology and mathematics, but decided that he preferred the humanities. He transferred to Columbia University where he received a B.A. in English literature in 1925 and M.A. in Medieval literature in 1927. Campbell was also an accomplished athlete, receiving awards for track and field.

Europe In 1927, Campbell received a fellowship provided by Columbia to study in Europe. Campbell studied Old French and Sanskrit at the University of Paris in France and the University of Munich in Germany. He quickly learned to read and speak both French and German mastering them after only a few months of rigorous study. He remained fluent in both languages for the rest of his life.

He was highly influenced in Europe by the period of the Lost Generation, a time of enormous intellectual and artistic innovation. Campbell commented on this influence, particularly that of James Joyce, in The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (1990, first edition:28):

CAMPBELL: And then the fact that James Joyce grabbed me. You know that wonderful living in a realm of significant fantasy, which is Irish, is there in the Arthurian romances; it's in Joyce; and it's in my life.
COUSINEAU: Did you find that you identified with Stephen Daedalus...in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
CAMPBELL: His problem was my problem, exactly...Joyce helped release me into an understanding of the universal sense of these symbols . . . Joyce disengaged himself and left the labyrinth, you might say, of Irish politics and the church to go to Paris, where he became one of the very important members of this marvelous movement that Paris represented in the period when I was there, in the '20s.
It was within this climate that Campbell was also introduced to the work of Thomas Mann who was equally influential upon his life and ideas. While in Europe Campbell was introduced to modern art. He became particularly enthusiastic about the work of Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. A whole new world opened up to Campbell while studying in Europe. Here he discovered the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. It was also during this time that he met and became friends with Jiddu Krishnamurti, a friendship which began his lifelong interest in Hindu philosophy and mythology. In addition, after the death of Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, Campbell was given the task to edit and posthumously publish Zimmer's paper
Return to the United States and the Great Depression
On his return from Europe in 1929, Campbell announced to his faculty at Columbia that his time in Europe had broadened his interests and that he wanted to study Sanskrit and Modern art in addition to Medieval literature. When his advisors did not support this, Campbell decided not to go forward with his plans to earn a doctorate and never returned to a conventional graduate program (The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work, (1990, first edition:54).

A few weeks later, the Great Depression began. Campbell would spend the next five years (1929-1934) trying to figure out what to do with his life (Larsen and Larsen, 2002:160) and engaging in a period of intensive and rigorous independent study. Campbell discussed this period in The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (1990, first edition:52-3). Campbell states that he "would divide the day into four four-hour periods, of which I would be reading in three of the four hour periods, and free one of them...I would get nine hours of sheer reading done a day. And this went on for five years straight."

He also traveled to California for a year (1931-32), continuing his independent studies and becoming close friends with the budding writer John Steinbeck and his wife Carol (Larsen and Larsen, 2002, chapters 8 and 9). Campbell also maintained his independent reading while teaching for a year in 1933 at the Canterbury School during which time he also attempted to publish works of fiction (Larsen and Larsen, 2002:214) [1].

Campbell's independent studies lead to greater exploration of the ideas of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, a contemporary and colleague of Sigmund Freud. Campbell edited the first Eranos conference papers and helped to found Princeton University Press' Bollingen Press. Another dissident member of Freud's circle to influence Campbell was Wilhelm Stekel (1868 - 1939). Stekel pioneered the application of Freud's conceptions of dreams, fantasies of the human mind, and the unconscious to such fields as anthropology and literature.


Sarah Lawrence College
In 1934, Campbell was offered a position as a professor at Sarah Lawrence College (through the efforts of his former Columbia advisor W.W. Laurence). Campbell married one of his former students, Jean Erdman, in 1938 and retired from Sarah Lawrence in 1972.


Death
Campbell died on October 31, 1987, in Honolulu due to ongoing complications with cancer, shortly after filming The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers

Answer 8

Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)



American writer on mythology and comparative religion who gained fame with such works as THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES (1948), an examination of the archetype of the hero, THE MASKS OF GOD (1959-1968), exploring the complex mythological heritage and its implications for modern humanity, and the multi-volume HISTORICAL ATLAS OF WORLD MYTHOLOGY (1989), of which only the sections on the early stages of human culture were completed. Campbell's theories were made popular with Public Broadcasting System series of television interviews with Bill Moyers. The PBS interviews were also published as a book, which became a bestseller.

"Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts - but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is." (from The Power of Myth)
Joseph Campbell was born in New York City. He was a reader of American Indian folklore as a child and revived his interest in the subject while working on a master's degree. Before attending Columbia University, he traveled in Europe. In 1927 Campbell received his M.A. in English and comparative literature. He then returned to Europe for postgraduate study in Arthurian romances at the Universities of Paris and Munich. During his stay he discovered that many themes in Arthurian legend resembled the basic motifs in American Indian folklore. The idea inspired Campbell in his unending study of such authors Thomas Mann and James Joyce. He was also caught up in the theories of Jung.

Back in the United States Campbell retired for five years to Woodstock, New York, and Carmel, California, where he put together his guiding thesis that perceived myths as "the pictorial vocabulary of communication from the source zones of our energies to the rational consciousness." In 1934 Campbell began teaching at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where he remained for thirty-eight years. In 1938 he married Jean Erdman, who founded a dance company and school of her own. From 1956 to 1973 Campbell was a visiting lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute. In 1985 he received the National Arts Club medal for honor for literature and was elected in 1987 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The popular PBS television program The Power of Myth was made in 1985 and 1986 mostly at the ranch of Campbell's friend, the film director George Lucas. Campbell's concept of the hero's journey was one of the sources for Star Wars film trilogy by Lucas. Campbell died at age of eighty-three on October 31, 1987, at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii, after a brief illness.

"Freud has suggested that all moments of anxiety reproduce the painful feelings of the first separation from the mother - the tightening of the breath, congestion of the blood, etc., of the crisis of the birth. Conversely, all moments of separation and new birth produce anxiety. Whether it be the king's child about to be taken from the felicity of her established dual-unity with Danny King, or God's daughter Eve, now ripe to depart from the idyl of the Garden, or again, the supremely concentrated Future Buddha breaking past the last horizons of the created world, the same archetypal images are activated, symbolizing danger, reassurance, trial, passage, and the strange holiness of the mysteries of birth" (from The Hero with a Thousand Faces)
Campbell began his writing career as a literary critic, co-authoring with Henry M. Robinson A SKELETON KEY TO FINNEGANS WAKE (1944), a study of James Joyce's major novel. He then turned his attention to explicating the great myths of the world's religions in terms of Jungian concept of the collective unconscious. He also popularized the key discoveries and the psychology of Jung. Campbell argued that world's mythologies, ritual practices, folk traditions, and major religions share certain symbolic themes, motifs, and patterns of behavior. His theories influenced a wide range of writers around the world, among them the Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski in his Tiarnia series.

In 1948 appeared The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is often cited as Campbell's best book. It has sold nearly one million copies in various editions. Campbell juxtaposed myths from Native Americans, ancient Greeks, Hindus, Buddhists, Mayans, Norse and Arthurian legends, and the Bible to elucidate the hero's path of adventure through rites of passage to final transfiguration. During the 1950s Campbell worked on his four-volume series, The Masks of God. In MYTHS TO LIVE BY (1972) he suggested that new myths would replace old ones, perhaps drawing symbols from modern technology. "I like to think of the year 1492 as marking the end - or at least the beginning of the end - of the authority of the old mythological systems by which the lives of men had been supported and inspired from time out of mind. Shortly after Columbus's epochal voyage, Magellan circumnavigated the globe. Shortly before, Vasco da Gama had sailed around Africa to India. The earth was beginning to be systematically explored, and the old, symbolic, mythological geographies discredited." As an editor Campbell compiled six volumes of ERANOS YEARBOOKS (1954-69), based on "shared feast" lectures held at Ascona in southern Switzwerland and originally published in the Eranos-Jahrbücher. He also assisted Swami Nikhilananda in producing a translation of THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA (1942), edited THE PORTABLE ARABIAN NIGHTS (1952), and provided folkloric commentaries for THE COMPLETE GRIMM FAIRY TALES (1944). Campbell often used skillfully down-to-earth examples when he clarified the influence of myths on modern day thinking. In the essay 'The Impact of Science on Myth' (1961) from Myths to Live By he depicts a discussion he heard at a luncg counter. A young boy tells his mother, that his friend Jimmy wrote a paper on the evolution of man, but the teacher said he was wrong: Adam and Eve were our first parents. And the boy's mother confirms this fundamentalist claim. "What a mother for a twentieth-century child!" Campbell wrote.

FOR FURTHER READING: Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority by M. Manganaro (1991); Joseph Campbell: Fire in the Mind by S. Larsen and R.A. Larsen (1991); Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion by D.C. Noel (1990); The Hero's Journey, ed. by P. Cousineau and S.L. Brown (1990); An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms ed. by John M. Maher and Dennis Briggs (1988); Joseph Campbell by Robert A. Segal (1987)

Selected works:

translation: THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA, 1942 (with Swami Nikhilananda)
WHERE THE TWO CAME TO THEIR FATHER, 1943 (with M. Oakes and J. King)
A SKELETON KEY TO FINNEGANS WAKE, 1944 (with Henry Morton Robinson)
THE COMPLETE GRIMM FAIRY TALES, 1944 (contribution)
ed.: MYTHS AND SYMBOLS IN INDIAN ART AND CIVILIZATION, 1946
ed.: THE KIND AND THE CORPSE, 1948 (by H. Zimmer)
JAMES JOYCE: TWO DECADES OF CRITICISM, 1948 (contribution)
THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES, 1948 (by H. Zimmer)
ed.: PHILOSOPHIES OF INDIA, 1951 (by H. Zimmer)
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE, 1951 (contribution)
ed.: THE PORTABLE ARABIAN NIGHTS, 1952
ed.: THE ART OF INDIAN ASIA, 1955 (by H. Zimmer)
BASIC BELIEFS, 1959 (contribution)
THE MASKS OF GOD, 1959-1968 (4 vols., Primitive Mythology, 1959; Oriental Mythology, 1962; Occidental Mythology, 1964; Creative Mythology, 1968)
CULTURE IN HISTORY, 1960 (contribution)
MYTH AND MYTHMAKING, 1960 (contribution)
PAPERS FROM THE ERANOS YEARBOOKS, 1969 (ed. Spirit and Nature, 1954; The Mysteries, 1955; Man and Time, 1957; Spiritual Disciplines, 1969; Man and Transformation, 1964; The Mystic Vision, 1969)
filmscript: STAIRWAYS TO THE MAYAN GODS, 1969
FLIGHT OF THE WILD GANDER: EXPLORATIONS IN THE MYTHOLOGICAL DIMENSION, SELECT ESSAYS, 1944-1968, 1969
WHERE THE TWO CAME TO THEIR FATHER, 1969
ed.: MYTHS, DREAMS, AND RELIGION, 1970
ed.: A PORTABLE JUNG, 1971
MYTHS TO LIVE BY, 1972
EROTIC IRONY AND MYTHIC FORMS IN THE ART OF THOMAS MANN, 1973
THE MYTHIC IMAGE, 1974 (with M.J. Adadie)
MYTHS, 1974 (contribution)
ed.: MY LIFE AND LIVES, 1977 (by R.K. Losang)
TAROT REVELATIONS, 1982 (3rd ed. 1987)
THE WAY OF THE ANIMAL POWERS: HISTORICAL ATLAS OF WORLD MYTHOLOGY, 1983
THE INNER REACHES OF OUTER SPACE, 1984
THE POWER OF MYTH, 1988 (with Bill Moyers)
TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME, 1990
THE UNIVERSAL MYTHS, 1990 (with A. Eliot and M. Eliade)
A JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION: REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF LIVING, 1995 (ed. by Diane K. Osborn)
ed.: MYTHS, DREAMS, AND RELIGION: ELEVEN VISIONS OF CONNECTION, 2000
THOU ART THAT: TRANSFORMING RELIGIOUS METAPHOR, 2001 (ed. by Eugene C. Kennedy)