1972, ISBN: 0691017786

[EAN: 9780691017785], [PU: Princeton NJ. 1992. Princeton Univ. Press / Bollingen Series VI / Mythos: Bollingen series In World Mythology], blue & full color photo illustrated trade paperb… More...

[EAN: 9780691017785], [PU: Princeton NJ. 1992. Princeton Univ. Press / Bollingen Series VI / Mythos: Bollingen series In World Mythology], blue & full color photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. 8th printing (#8 in # line). . nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~.xiii+248p+70 glossy b&w full page plates. bibliographic footnotes throughout. index. religion. ancient history. mythology. history of indian. archaeology. art history. psychology. philosophy. ~ This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legends, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image~thinking and picture~reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements. "In a book which is enormously scholarly, though completely unassuming in its erudition, and so persuasive through the formal beauty and clarity of its style as to make it deservedly a classic of exegetic prose, Dr. Zimmer relates the basic myths that lie behind the forms of Indian art and civilization that produced them. Dr. Zimmer . sensed how the images, the revelations of the sages, 'were moulded into a comprehensive system of thought ascribing an order to the world, into an ethical regulation of human actions, and into a mighty far~spread and ancient institution called church or religion.' . It is rarely in any branch of knowledge that one encounters such an illumination of the whole subject, an investigation that is as brilliant as it is profound." ~Benjamin Rowland, Jr. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization was prepared by Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen/Princeton) from extensive notes left by the great German Indologist Heinrich Zimmer at his death in New York in 1943. It was followed by three other volumes (also in Bollingen Series) reconstructed from materials that Zimmer left unfinished: The King and the Corpse, Philosophies of India, and The Art of Indian Asia. Of these, the first two titles are also available in Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks., Books<

1972, ISBN: 0691017786

[EAN: 9780691017785], [PU: Princeton NJ. 1974. Princeton Univ. Press / Bollingen Series VI], yellow & white decorative trade paperback soft cover 8vo. highlighted copy in good cond. bindi… More...

[EAN: 9780691017785], [PU: Princeton NJ. 1974. Princeton Univ. Press / Bollingen Series VI], yellow & white decorative trade paperback soft cover 8vo. highlighted copy in good cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. bit of wrinkling on front cover, small corner crease on rear cover. edges clean. approximately 38 pages with yellow highlighter, ending ap page 68. rest of test clean. second printing. good reading or study copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings. xiii+248p+70 glossy b&w full page plates. bibliographic footnotes throughout. index. religion. ancient history. mythology. history of indian. archaeology. art history. psychology. philosophy. ~ This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legends, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image~thinking and picture~reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements. "In a book which is enormously scholarly, though completely unassuming in its erudition, and so persuasive through the formal beauty and clarity of its style as to make it deservedly a classic of exegetic prose, Dr. Zimmer relates the basic myths that lie behind the forms of Indian art and civilization that produced them. Dr. Zimmer . sensed how the images, the revelations of the sages, 'were moulded into a comprehensive system of thought ascribing an order to the world, into an ethical regulation of human actions, and into a mighty far~spread and ancient institution called church or religion.' . It is rarely in any branch of knowledge that one encounters such an illumination of the whole subject, an investigation that is as brilliant as it is profound." ~Benjamin Rowland, Jr. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization was prepared by Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen/Princeton) from extensive notes left by the great German Indologist Heinrich Zimmer at his death in New York in 1943. It was followed by three other volumes (also in Bollingen Series) reconstructed from materials that Zimmer left unfinished: The King and the Corpse, Philosophies of India, and The Art of Indian Asia. Of these, the first two titles are also available in Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks., Books<