The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Worksl)
Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell s last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure.""
- Author
- Joseph Campbell
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- New World Library
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781577312093
- Genres
- mythology, philosophy, religion, psychology, spirituality, history, science, anthropology, art
- Release date
- 2002
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