Joseph Campbell cytaty
Joseph Campbell
Data urodzenia: 26. Marzec 1904
Data zgonu: 30. Październik 1987
Natępne imiona:Джозеф Кемпбелл
Joseph Campbell – amerykański mitoznawca, religioznawca, pisarz i myśliciel. Uznawany za jednego z najwybitniejszych mitografów XX w.
Swoimi fundamentalnymi dziełami zmienił tradycyjne sposoby pojmowania mitologii oraz zjawiska mitu we współczesnych naukach społecznych i wywarł istotny wpływ na twórczość artystów Zachodniego Świata drugiej połowy XX wieku.
Programy telewizyjne z jego udziałem, nadawane przez największe sieci telewizyjne świata, stały się wydarzeniem społecznym, naukowym i artystycznym lat 80.
Jego koncepcje umieszczane są w nurcie tzw. jungowskiej analizy mitologii i religii.
Cytaty Joseph Campbell
„Każdy człowiek musi znaleźć taki aspekt mitu, który będzie związany z jego własnym życiem. Mity w zasadzie pełnią cztery funkcje. Pierwsza jest mistyczna: gdy uświadamiasz sobie, jakim cudem jest wszechświat i ty sam, i gdy odczuwasz lęk wobec tej tajemnicy. (...) Druga (...) jest wymiarem kosmologicznym (...); ukazuje ci kształt wszechświata, ale w taki sposób, że znów dostrzegasz w nim tajemnicę. (...) Trzecia (...) jest socjologiczna, polega na podtrzymywaniu i uzasadnianiu pewnego porządku społecznego.(...) czwarta (...) pedagogiczna: w jaki sposób żyć po ludzku w każdych okolicznościach. Mity mogą nas tego nauczyć.“
— Joseph Campbell
Źródło: Potęga mitu. Rozmowy Billa Moyersa z Josephem Campbellem, 1988, tłum. Ireneusz Kania
„The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.“
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
„All cultures … have grown out of myths. They are founded on myths.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: All cultures … have grown out of myths. They are founded on myths. What these myths have given has been inspiration for aspiration. The economic interpretation of history is for the birds. Economics is itself a function of aspiration. It’s what people aspire to that creates the field in which economics works.
Lecture 1B, 8:20
„This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ. It's a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body.
Episode 1, Chapter 12
„This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience. Doubt comes in, and so forth. You must remember: all of the great traditions, and little traditions, in their own time were scientifically correct. That is to say, they were correct in terms of the scientific image of that age. So there must be a scientifically validated image. Now you know what has happened: our scientific field has separated itself from the religious field, or vice-versa. … This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing.
Lecture 1A, 13:45
„The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience. Doubt comes in, and so forth. You must remember: all of the great traditions, and little traditions, in their own time were scientifically correct. That is to say, they were correct in terms of the scientific image of that age. So there must be a scientifically validated image. Now you know what has happened: our scientific field has separated itself from the religious field, or vice-versa. … This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing.
Lecture 1A, 13:45
