Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Angaben zur Quelle:
66,2 (1998) 385-401
Keywords:
Campbell, Joseph,
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Myth Comparative studies
Abstract:
Criticizes Campbell's gnosticizing and psychologizing approach to myth. There is a correlation between Campbell's universalist approach to mythology and religion and his negative approach to the historical and unique in general and Judaism in particular. Campbell (1904-1987) rejected history, the event, the unique, and the particular in favor of the internal, the psychological, and the universal. His approach, combined with his antisemitism, reduced the Holocaust to an internal, psychological matter, a sidestream in the great sweep of history. He did not find in it a touchstone of reality. Contrasts Campbell's approach with that of Martin Buber, who saw myth as bound to the existential and historical. In a response, Robert A. Segal contends that Campbell's indifference to the Holocaust must be attributed not to his theory of myth but to his antisemitism. See also Friedman's rejoinder.
Description / Table of Contents:
Segal, Robert Alan. Joseph Campbell as antisemite and as theorist of myth; a response to Maurice Friedman. Ibid. 67,2 (1999) 461-467.
Description / Table of Contents:
Friedman, Maurice Stanley. Psychology, psychologism, and myth; a rejoinder. Ibid. 469-471.
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