The Odyssey Experience: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys

By Neil J. Smelser

University of California Press
Publication date: February 2009

ISBN: 9780520943421

Digital Book format: PDF (Adobe DRM)

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â¿¿The Odyssey Experience puts forward the view that a journey, as encapsulated by the journey of Odysseus, provides a fundamental and archetypal human experience and develops a theory of this experience through personal experiences and a wide range of salient phenomena. There is a vast literature inspired by The Odyssey, but the way that Smelser approaches the subject is entirely unique.â¿â¿¿Yiannis Gabriel, University of London â¿¿Smelser draws together studies of an astonishing range of diverse topics and subsumes them under a single coherent, powerful, overarching conceptâ¿¿the odyssey experience. I believe his book will lead to the establishment of an entirely new field of study in the social and behavioral sciences, that will open up new and promising lines of theory and research that until now have not been possible.â¿â¿¿Robert Scott, Associate Director (emeritus), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences