Joseph Campbell & Marija Gimbutas Library

Annual Joseph Campbell Program at Esalen

Richard Buchen

Joseph Campbell gave a program at Esalen in March almost every year for almost 20 years. After his death in 1987, the Joseph Campbell Foundation continued the tradition by arranging for people who had worked with Campbell to hold workshops.

This year, Chungliang Al Huang will present a workshop with Robert Walter, the director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation , titled "That was Zen, this is Tao: Eastern Philosophy and the Hero's Journey" from March 23-25, to be followed by the workshop "At Play in the Fields of the Lord: A Mythological Toolkit (14th Edition, Revised)" on March 25-30.

Campbell's Writings on James Joyce

Richard Buchen

Joseph Campbell was hired at Sarah Lawrence College in 1934 to be a Professor of Literature, and by 1940 he was teaching his students about the writings of the controversial avant-garde writer James Joyce. Many critics thought that the multi-layered book Finnegans Wake was a fraud, and Campbell's first published book in 1944 was "A Skelton Key to Finnegans Wake," which is now available again in a new edition published in cooperation with the Joseph Campbell Foundation .

Also available is Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce , edited from lectures and scholarly essays that Campbell produced throughout his career.