by Joseph Campbell · Princeton University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780691097336
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«Man and Transformation» is the fifth volume of Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, edited by Joseph Campbell, in hardcover from Princeton University Press.
It brings together eleven essays by thinkers such as Mircea Eliade, Paul Tillich and Daisetz T. Suzuki on the transformation of the human being: spiritual rebirth, Byzantine and Islamic mysticism, Zen Buddhism, animal metamorphosis and immortality.
Bollingen Series XXX, volume 5. Text in English (translated by Ralph Manheim), 433 pages.
Of interest to students and scholars of philosophy of religion, comparative mythology and history of ideas.
Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
