Philosophy · Similar reads
Books like The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell is about hero's journey, mythology, transformation. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Myths to Live By
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Joseph Campbell · Philosophy
Myths to Live By collects a series of lectures Joseph Campbell delivered at Cooper Union in New York City between 1958 and 1971.
Read the summary → - The Power of Myth
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Joseph Campbell · Philosophy
The Power of Myth is the transcript of six hours of conversations between Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers, filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in 1985 and 1986 and broadcast on PBS in 1988, shortly after Campbell's death.
Read the summary → - The Sacred and the Profane
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Mircea Eliade · Philosophy
The Sacred and the Profane is Mircea Eliade's most accessible introduction to his life's central argument: that religious experience is a distinct mode of being in the world, irreducible to sociology, economics, psychology, or any other secular explanatory framework.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
Read the summary → - The Varieties of Religious Experience
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · Religion & Spirituality
The Varieties of Religious Experience originated as the Gifford Lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1901–1902 and immediately became one of the most celebrated works in the study of religion.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
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