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This newly redesigned edition of Campbell's seminal 1949 work
combines the insights of modern psychology with the author's
revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. Illustrated.
Joseph Campbell was the world's greatest authority on myth, his
monumental four-volume The Masks of God is a definitive work on the
subject, and in Myths to Live By he explores how these enduring
myths still influence our daily lives and can provide personal
meaning in our lives. Myths are a way of explaining the cosmos, the
origin of life and Man's relationship with their environment; they
play a cohesive role in society. Joseph Campbell analyses myth in
psychoanalytic terms to reveal their essential qualities and to
demonstrate how they continue to reflect human needs, providing
reassurance even in today's world. Ranging from Zen koans and
Indian aesthetics to walking on the moon, Joseph Campbell explores
how myth and religion follow the same archetypes, which are not
exclusive to any single race, religion or region. Campbell believed
that all religion is a search for the same transcendent and
fundamental spiritual truths. He shows how we must recognise the
common denominators between differing myths and faiths and allow
this knowledge to fulfil human potential everywhere.
The Year that Defined American Journalism explores the succession
of remarkable and decisive moments in American journalism during
1897 - a year of significant transition that helped redefine the
profession and shape its modern contours. This defining year
featured a momentous clash of paradigms pitting the activism of
William Randolph Hearst's participatory 'journalism of action'
against the detached, fact-based antithesis of activist journalism,
as represented by Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, and an
eccentric experiment in literary journalism pursued by Lincoln
Steffens at the New York Commercial-Advertiser. Resolution of the
three-sided clash of paradigms would take years and result
ultimately in the ascendancy of the Times' counter-activist model,
which remains the defining standard for mainstream American
journalism. The Year That Defined American Journalism introduces
the year-study methodology to mass communications research and
enriches our understanding of a pivotal moment in media history.
The Year that Defined American Journalism explores the succession
of remarkable and decisive moments in American journalism during
1897 - a year of significant transition that helped redefine the
profession and shape its modern contours. This defining year
featured a momentous clash of paradigms pitting the activism of
William Randolph Hearst's participatory 'journalism of action'
against the detached, fact-based antithesis of activist journalism,
as represented by Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, and an
eccentric experiment in literary journalism pursued by Lincoln
Steffens at the New York Commercial-Advertiser. Resolution of the
three-sided clash of paradigms would take years and result
ultimately in the ascendancy of the Times' counter-activist model,
which remains the defining standard for mainstream American
journalism. The Year That Defined American Journalism introduces
the year-study methodology to mass communications research and
enriches our understanding of a pivotal moment in media history.
This volume is a collection of a series of exclusive interviews
where Campbell tells his own story, from his Catholic upbringing
and early interest in Native American culture, through Paris in the
1920s and into the world of modern mythmakers.
A sweeping look at the messy and contentious past of US
presidential pre-election polls and why they aren’t as reliable
as we think. Polls in U.S. presidential elections can and do get it
wrong—as surprising outcomes in 2020, in 2016, in 2012, in 2004,
in 2000 all remind us. Lost in a Gallup captures in lively and
unprecedented fashion the stories of polling flops, epic upsets,
unforeseen landslides, and exit poll fiascoes in presidential
elections since 1936. Polling’s checkered record in elections has
rarely been considered in detail and, until now, has never been
addressed collectively. Polling embarrassments are not all
alike. Pollsters have anticipated tight elections when landslides
occurred; they have indicated the wrong winner in closer elections;
state polls have confounded expected national outcomes. Exit
polling has thrown Election Day into confusion. The work of
venerable pollsters has been singularly and memorably in error. It
is a rare presidential election not to be marred by polling
controversies. Lost in a Gallup casts a critical eye on major
figures in election polling such as George Gallup, a prickly
founding father of public opinion research. The book also considers
the polling innovations of Warren Mitofsky, whose admonition rings
true across generations: “There’s a lot of room for humility in
polling. Every time you get cocky, you lose.” Lost in a
Gallup examines how polling failure often equates to journalistic
failure. Historically, poll-bashing was quite pronounced among
prominent journalists, including well-known newspaper columnists
such as Mike Royko in Chicago and Jimmy Breslin in New York. They
and other journalists challenged the presumption that polls could
accurately measure or interpret what the public was thinking. Even
so, polls drive news media narratives about presidential elections,
shaping conventional wisdom about how competitive those races are.
As Lost in a Gallup makes clear, polls are not always in error. But
when they fail, they can fail in surprising ways.
A Princeton Classics edition of an essential work of
twentieth-century scholarship on India Since its first publication,
Philosophies of India has been considered a monumental exploration
of the foundations of Indian philosophy. Based on the copious notes
of Indologist, linguist, and art historian Heinrich Zimmer, and
edited by Joseph Campbell, this book is organized into three
sections. "The Highest Good" looks at Eastern and Western thought
and their convergence; "The Philosophies of Time" discusses the
philosophies of success, pleasure, and duty; and "The Philosophies
of Eternity" presents the fundamental concepts of Buddhism,
Brahmanism, Jainism, Sankhya and yoga, and Tantra. This work
examines such areas as the Buddhist Tantras, Buddhist Genesis, the
Tantric presentation of divinity, the preparation of disciples and
the meaning of initiation, and the symbolism of the mandala-palace
Tantric ritual and twilight language. It also delves into the
Tantric teachings of the inner Zodiac and the fivefold ritual
symbolism of passion. Appendices, a bibliography, and general and
Sanskrit indexes are included.
Finally available in a popularly priced,non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is idealfor the college market and general reader alike,this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliantevocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology.
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In this extensively illustrated volume, Joseph Campbell explores
the feminine divine. He traces its blossoming from one great
goddess to the many goddesses of the mythic imagination by weaving
together Marija Gimbutas' studies of neolithic old Europe, the
Greek Eleusinian mystery cult, Arthurian legends of the Middle
Ages, and the neoplatonic renaissance.
What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its
functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or
do they help foster it? In Myths to Live by, Joseph Campbell
explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence
our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the
primitive past to the immediate present, retuning always to the
source from which all mythology springs: the creative imagination.
Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the Earth have been
shattered; that myths and religions have always followed the
certain basic archetypes and are no longer exclusive to a single
people, region, or religion. He shows how we must recognize their
common denominators and allow this knowledge to be of use in
fulfilling human potential everywhere.
Nineteen ninety-five was an exceptional year, a hinge moment in
recent American history. Drawing on interviews, oral histories,
memoirs, archival collections, and contemporaneous news reports, W.
Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those
memorable twelve months. The book offers fresh interpretations of
the decisive moments of 1995, including the entry of the Internet
and the World Wide Web into the mainstream of American life; the
bombing at Oklahoma City, the deadliest attack of domestic
terrorism in U.S. history; the sensational "Trial of the Century,"
at which O.J. Simpson faced charges of double murder; the
U.S.-brokered negotiations at Dayton, Ohio, which ended the Bosnian
War, Europe's most vicious conflict since the time of the Nazis;
and the first encounters at the White House between Bill Clinton
and Monica Lewinsky, a liaison that culminated in a stunning
scandal and the spectacle of the president's impeachment and trial.
As Campbell demonstrates in this absorbing chronicle, 1995 was a
year of surpassing exceptionality, a watershed at the cusp of the
millennium. The effects of that pivotal year reverberate still,
marking the close of one century and the dawning of another.
This title brings the focus of Campbell's remarkable knowledge and
intellect to one of his favourite topics: the myths and metaphors
of the Asian religions. Seven lectures and articles on the
mythologies and religions of Asia are included.
Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories
are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven
myths, and they attribute to the news media and their practitioners
far more power and influence than they truly exert. In Getting It
Wrong, writer and scholar W. Joseph Campbell confronts and
dismantles prominent media-driven myths, describing how they can
feed stereotypes, distort understanding about the news media, and
deflect blame from policymakers. Campbell debunks the notions that
the Washington Post's Watergate reporting brought down Richard M.
Nixon's corrupt presidency, that Walter Cronkite's characterization
of the Vietnam War in 1968 shifted public opinion against the
conflict, and that William Randolph Hearst vowed to "furnish the
war" against Spain in 1898. This expanded second edition includes a
new preface and new chapters about the first Kennedy-Nixon debate
in 1960, the haunting Napalm Girl photograph of the Vietnam War,
and bogus quotations driven by the Internet and social media.
This offers a detailed and long-awaited reassessment of one of the
most maligned periods in American journalism—the era of the
yellow press. The study challenges and dismantles several prominent
myths about the genre, finding that the yellow press did not
foment—could not have fomented—the Spanish-American War in
1898, contrary to the arguments of many media historians. The study
presents extensive evidence showing that the famous exchange of
telegrams between the artist Frederic Remington and newspaper
publisher William Randolph Hearst—in which Hearst is said to have
vowed to furnish the war with Spain—almost certainly never took
place. The study also presents the results of a systematic content
analysis of seven leading U. S. newspapers at 10 year intervals
throughout the 20th century and finds that some distinguishing
features of the yellow press live on in American journalism. The
yellow press period in American journalism history has produced
many powerful and enduring myths-almost none of them true. This
study explores these legends, presenting extensive evidence that:
• The yellow press did not foment-could not have fomented-the
Spanish-American War in 1898, contrary of the arguments of many
media historians • The famous exchange of telegrams between the
artist Frederic Remington and newspaper publisher William Randolph
Hearst-in which Hearst is said to have vowed to furnish the war
with Spain-almost certainly never took place • The readership of
the yellow press was not confined to immigrants and people having
an uncertain command of English, as many media historians maintain
The study also presents the results of a detailed content analysis
of seven leading U.S. newspapers at 10-year intervals, from 1899 to
1999. The content analysis—which included the Denver Post, Los
Angeles Times, New York Times, Raleigh News and Observer, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Examine and Washington Post—reveal
that some elements characteristic of yellow journalism have been
generally adopted by leading U. S. newspapers. This critical
assessment encourages a more precise understanding of the history
of yellow journalism, appealing to scholars of American journalism,
journalism history, and practicing journalists.
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.
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