Sake and Satori by Joseph Campbell

Sake and Satori by Joseph Campbell

This is Joseph Campbell's account of a journey that led him to become a counterculture icon. The work covers his travels through Japan. Written from the unjaded perspective of an erudite teacher on his first trip to the Asia he had studied for most of his life, this is a snapshot of 1950s Asia and its rapidly changing post-colonial and Cold War tensions.

Joseph Campbell was interested in mythology since his childhood in New York, when he read books about American Indians, frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History, and was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia in 1925 and 1927 and went on to study medieval French and Sanskrit at the universities of Paris and Munich. After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 1940s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The many books by Professor Campbell include The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Myths to Live By, The Flight of the Wild Gander, and The Mythic Image. He edited The Portable Arabian Nights, The Portable Jung, and other works. He died in 1987.

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ISBN 13	9781577312369
ISBN 10	1577312368
Title	Sake and Satori
Author	Joseph Campbell
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	New World Library
Year published	2002-11-13
Number of pages	400
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