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Acclaimed Jeweler Points to Campbell as Inspiration
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March 4, 2020Acclaimed Jeweler and creator of Bee Goddess, Ece Sirin points to Joseph Campbell, and specifically his book, Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine as inspiration for her celebrated work. She told Vanity Fair, “He gave...
New Exhibit, Terminus, at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Takes Campbell’s Hero’s Journey into New Artistic Spaces
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February 19, 2020The title of the current exhibition showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art is an apt one as Terminus alludes to a finishing point or the attaining of a final goal. This notion of a quest, popularized...
Akira The Don & Joseph Campbell: The First Function of Mythology
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February 12, 2020British musician, DJ, and producer Akira the Don is bringing the work of Joseph Campbell to new audiences through his music. His latest album, Songs of Mythology, deals with many of Campbell’s concepts concerning myth....
UNC-Duke Basketball and Joseph Campbell
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February 5, 2020“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...
NBA Legend, Kobe Bryant, Studied Campbell Deeply and Spoke of His Importance
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January 27, 2020NBA legend, Kobe Bryant, who died on January 26, had been vocal about his study of Joseph Campbell, and specifically The Hero’s Journey. Ramona Shelburne, a reporter for ESPN, recounted her conversations with Bryant about...
Listen to UW-Milwaukee Philosophy Professor Talk Campbell, Mythology, and Star Wars on NPR
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January 24, 2020Mark 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...