Joseph Campbell
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Most Influential Person Across History
American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Joseph Campbell's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
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Religious Studies
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Comparative Religion
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Joseph Campbell's Degrees
- Bachelors English Literature Columbia University
- Masters Medieval Literature Columbia University
- PhD Comparative Literature Université Paris Cité
Why Is Joseph Campbell Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph John Campbell 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 , in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
Joseph Campbell's Published Works
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