Bill Moyers Knihy

Síla mýtu je knižní přepis proslulého šestihodinového cyklu rozhovorů amerického antropologa, religionisty a filozofa Josepha Campbella (1904-1987) s moderátorem Billem Moyersem, v zasvěcených sondách do nejrůznějších kultur, civilizací a náboženství věnovaných proměnám úlohy mytologie v dějinách lidstva a jejím smyslu v současném globalizovaném světě, kde stále výrazně zasahuje do představ a postojů moderního člověka. Campbellovy myšlenky například zásadně ovlivnily jeho přítele George Lucase v koncepci filmové trilogie Hvězdné války. Vydání ,,Síly mýtu'' iniciovala Jacqueline Kennedyová Onassisová jako redaktorka newyorského nakladatelství Doubleday.

In the best-selling companion volume to the PBS series, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers explores the fascinating, complex, powerful connection between mind and body in human health. Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections. In Healing And The Mind , Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists, and patients -- people who are taking a new look at the meaning of sickness and health. In a series of fascinating and provocative interviews, he discusses their search for answers to perplexing questions: How do emotions translate into chemicals in our bodies? How do thoughts and feelings influence health? How can we collaborate with our bodies to encourage healing? With the incisive style that has made Bill Moyers's skills as an interviewer legendary, Healing And The Mind is destined to influence how America thinks about sickness and health. Full -color and B & W photographs throughout.

Journey with Bill Moyers across the landscape of America, listening and talking with scientists, writers, artists, philosophers and historians, as they share what's on their minds and in their hearts about issues that concern us all. Includes The National Soul, Crisis of Democracy, and Dissolving Boundaries.

Mid 20th Century version of de Tocqueville's journey and investigation of democracy in America.

Campbell talks about romantic love, beginning with the 12th century troubadours, and addresses questions about the image of woman--as goddess, virgin, Mother Earth. Moyers: " "In the middle ages amour was celebrated by wandering minstrels who sang of what the eyes have made welcome to the heart. It helped create a distinctive Western consciousness that exalted the individual experience of men and woman over the authority and traditions of the church and state."" Campbell: " "Virgin birth is the birth of spiritual man out of animal man.... When you are awakened at the level of the heart to compassion and suffering with the other person, that is the beginning of humanity.... It is the suffering that evokes the humanity of the human heart. Love, you might say, is the burning point of life and since all is sorrowful, so is love. And the stronger the love, the more that pain"-"that love bears all things. Love itself is a pain, you might say"-"that is, the pain of being truly alive.""