Joseph Campbell

why do something hard like reading a book and interpreting it for yourself when you could just watch Star Wars and Jordan Peterson YouTube videos?

>>3248715
He's like Weber. Too much of his though is already general knowledge regarding mythology, you've probably heard his ideas in the words of other people a million times.

>>3248767
>implying accepting common wisdom approach to a thinker is good at all
if you're going to try to use Campbell's ideas for anything or are just interested in them, read him yourself. think of all the people who have read and reinterpreted pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Bacon, Descartes, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, etc. because they weren't lazy pieces of shit and thus pushed western thought forward.

Isn't alot of Campbell's stuff Jungian nonsense

>>3248825
>>3248825
Opposite. He's freudian. Which is his main problem, since jungian analysis is better suited to the type of thing Campbell is doing. That's why you get idiots(like the person who made the Zeitgeist documentary) somehow think that all religions are the same. I am damn sure that this comes from the fact that Campbell uses more freudian theories in Hero with 1000 faces.

skip middleman and brush up on your Jung