Darren Hayes, musician and member of the band Savage Garden, cited Joseph Campbell and his concept of the Hero’s Journey as being greatly influential in his life. In an interview about his love for Star Wars on StarWars.com, Hayes states,…
Excitement around news of director Zack Snyder’s cut of the DC film Justice League, brought many back to talking about Joseph Campbell’s influence on Snyder. To read more about how Snyder secretly encoded a Campbell quote written in Kryptonian into…
Forbes contributor, Dede Henley, shares in her recent article Reframe Quaratine as an Adventure and Become Its Hero, her admiration for Joseph Campbell and his classic work, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Applying Campbell and his book to current…
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow…
Mark Peterson is a philosophy professor at UW-Milwaukee’s College of General Studies, where he co-teaches a course on superheroes and mythology. “The actual structure of the course is an application of semiotic theory to unpacking whether or not metaphorical, mythical…
Star Wars has operated in concert with Campbell’s work since the days of George Lucas and Luke Skywalker and The Hero With a Thousand Faces. It’s baked into the archetypal hero’s journey of Rey in the sequel trilogy, and one key moment…
The Academy of Ideas offers viewers an incredible, and easy to understand summary of Campbell’s work, ideas, and philosophy. Would Joseph Campbell have ever imagined his work being taught to millions of individuals from across the globe, via an educational…
Mark Morford writes for the SF Gate about Joseph Campbell’s work and how mythology is not intended to be taken as fact, but to represent an inward experience. In other words, all of the world’s various mythologies throughout history have…
Mike Sandrock writes for the Daily Camera about Sara Avant Stover, a writer who applies Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, to the life of the modern female in her new book The Book of SHE: Your Heroine’s Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power. Although Campbell stated…
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