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Uncle Joe

(61,661 posts) Fri May 9, 2025, 06:01 PM Friday

Understanding Mythology with Joseph Campbell

This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in February 1987. Here Campbell describes his overall vision of the role of mythology in culture.

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Thank you, Uncle Joe! Kid Berwyn Friday #1

I saw Joseph Campbell in the 70s GenThePerservering Friday #2

Kid Berwyn

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1. Thank you, Uncle Joe!

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Fri May 9, 2025, 06:24 PM

Friday

What Mark Twain said:

"I care not who writes the laws of a nation, if I may write its belief.”

GenThePerservering

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2. I saw Joseph Campbell in the 70s

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Fri May 9, 2025, 07:00 PM

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instead of taking an exam in a graduate class, the prof invited all of we (admittedly exhausted) students to hear Joseph Campbell. I hadn't slept in two nights finishing up the papers I had to write, and still Campbell kept me absolutely rivited! Outstanding speaker.

Thanks for this!

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