Thursday, December 11, 2008

#82. The Hero With a Thousand Faces


Title - The Hero With a Thousand Faces (2005)
Author - Joseph Campbell
Runtime - Six Hours [Unabridged]
Language Variety- North American English
Genre- Nonfiction

Book Description

The Adventure of the Hero describes the universal image of the hero and shows that folklore and myth can serve as potent spiritual and psychological metaphors for modern man. This part of the program follows the mythological path from maturity to freedom, the heroic inner struggle that leads from birth to spiritual rebirth, to help us understand ourselves and the essence of what it means to be a human being.