Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Heinrich Robert Zimmer
Edited by Joseph Campbell

Paper | 1972 | $23.95 / £13.95
282 pp.

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This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, 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.

Review:

"Zimmer moves among [the myths of India] unhurriedly, with a respect that amounts to devotion. Gradually his comments bring to light the universal meanings beneath the archaic exterior."--The New York Times

Endorsement:

"In viewing India's art and civilization, the late Dr. Heinrich Zimmer, a man of penetrating intellect, the keenest esthetic sensibility and a predilection for psychoanalytic methods, found unlimited material for employing all three qualities. . . . The Indian material offered is of the best quality: the language in which it is presented is imaginative, figurative, poetic, vigorous."--W. Norman Brown

This book has been translated into:

• Turkish
• German

Other Princeton books by Heinrich Robert Zimmer:

• The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil.
• Philosophies of India.

Other Princeton books by Joseph Campbell:

• Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks.: Eranos 1. Spirit and Nature.
• Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks.: Eranos 2. The Mysteries.
• Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks.: Eranos 4. Spiritual Disciplines.
• Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks.: Eranos 6. The Mystic Vision.
• The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil.
• The Mythic Image.
• Philosophies of India.

Series:

• Works by Heinrich Zimmer
  Completed and Edited by Joseph Campbell
• Mythos

Subject Areas:

• Mind, Body, Spirit
• Art and Architecture
• Asian and Asian American Studies
• Religion

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For customers in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Australia
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