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ISBN: 9781577312093 - The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

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Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

Joseph Campbell

ISBN: 9781577312093
Format: Hardback
Publisher:New World Library
Edition: 3rd Revised edition


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This text explores the space age, its implicit new mythology, and argues that within the psyche of today's artists are the seeds of tomorrow's mythologies.

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Originally published in 1986, this was Joseph Campbell's last book. It is developed from a series of lectures in which he explores the Space Age, and posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realisation. He demonstrates that metaphor is the language of art and argues that within the psyches of today's artists are the seeds of tomorrow's mythologies.
 
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