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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I THE FAIRY TALE
The Work of the Brothers Grimm
The Types of Story
The History of the Tales
The Question of Meaning
CHAPTER II BIOS AND MYTHOS
Sociological and Psychological Schools of Interpretation
The Biological Function of Myth
The Image of a Second Birth
The Anxiety of the Misborn
CHAPTER III PRIMITIVE MAN AS METAPHYSICIAN
Tender- and Tough-Minded Thinking
The Image and Its Meaning
Imagery of the Manifold and Its “Cause”
The “Cause” Understood As Absolutely Unknown
Theology As a Misreading of Mythology
Esoteric and Exoteric Anthropology
CHAPTER IV MYTHOGENESIS
An American Indian Legend
The Neolithic Background
The Paleolithic Background
The Psychological Base
The Personal Factor
CHAPTER V THE SYMBOL WITHOUT MEANING
The Impact of Modern Science
The Mythic Forms of Archaic Civilization
The Neolithic-Paleolithic Contrast
Problem of the New Symbol Emergent
The Shaman and the Priest
The Wild Gander
Mythologies of Engagement and Disengagement
The Flight between Two Thoughts
CHAPTER VI THE SECULARIZATION OF THE SACRED
The Tree in the Garden
Religions of Identity
Religions of Relationship
The European Graft
Eros, Agapœ, Amor
The Western Individual
APPENDIX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE JOSEPH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION
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