People and authors

Biographical reference pages about writers and thinkers represented in the library.

• George Lakoff
• Gilles Fauconnier
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Gregory Bateson
• I.A. Richards
• Idries Shah
• Joseph Campbell
• Heinrich Zimmer and the Interpretation of Myth
• Max Black
• Nossrat Peseschkian
• Paul Ricoeur

Focused studies of an author's work

• Susan Sontag and Illness Metaphors - her two essays on illness, stigma and the ethics of metaphor.
• James Joyce, Everyday Life and Myth
• Thomas Mann: Myth, Art and Irony

For reading routes, primary texts and official lectures, see Joseph Campbell: Reading and Listening Guide.

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