Impact of Space-Age Imagery

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The Impact of Space-Age Imagery
The Impact of Space-Age Imagery

In this lecture, Joseph Cambell discusses the significance that modern space-age imagery has with respect to mythology today. Mythologies that function and are vital, he says, are always up to date scientifically.

“They represent an integration of the experience of the environment with the experiencing subject: the psyche of the local individuals; but when the science has moved away from the cosmology of the mythology, the mythology is dead.”

Our traditional mythologies are utterly dead for most of us, he argues, as demonstrated by the confusion and decline of traditional religions.
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Author: Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. 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 experience. 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. Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theories have been applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: "Follow your bliss." He gained recognition in Hollywood when George Lucas credited Campbell's work as influencing his Star Wars saga.

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