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What do you suppose Joseph Campbell will be most remembered for in 50 years time? What's his main contribution?
I think his main contribution is in making mythology readable, acceptable and understood to a larger part of the population. Particularly where it was only understood by scholars before, it now has a much wider audience.What do you suppose Joseph Campbell will be most remembered for in 50 years time? What's his main contribution?
His soups.
The thread is about Joseph John Campbell not Joseph A. CampbellI agree with Riverwolf and Mestemia on the Star Wars. I am not a can soup person so I can't agree with Nehustan.
To be serious for a moment, I suppose he will be remembered for ideas surrounding archetypes/structure within myths/narratives as applicable. To be honest I think Jung, Levi Strauss, et al. might outlive him. I know I might annoy people with my next comment, and I actually have enjoyed my looks at his work, but he is really a pop anthropologist, so I guess as long as people enjoy bubblegum, he'll enjoy similar longevity...
I can't recall which book it was in, I think it may have been Imajica by Clive Barker, but he says that there are really only so many stories to be told, just reweaved over and over again. I guess if you accept that premise it actually frees the creative process rather than limiting it as one might think.
I think he'll be remembered for how patient he was with Bill Moyer (who obviously didn't have a clue what Campbell was talking about most of the time) during all those interviews.