EP 13: Art and Mythology of Thomas Mann
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Double Optic of the Artist
Art gives us the double vision we need to make sense of this terrifying and fascinating mystery of existence. Art allows us to glimpse the ideal while still rooted in the real. Professor Campbell asserts that the philosophical mind always turns thedynamic of nature into a problem, and insists that the world shouldn't be the way it is. He even told a bad joke about the difference between men and women which landed utterly flat.
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