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Dr Jeffrey Hipolito
The first comprehensive account of Owen Barfield's philosophical thought, surveying his meaningful and unique contributions in a variety of fields, including poetics, semiotics, metaphysics, ethics, theology, and social theory.
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Jeffrey Hipolito
Owen Barfield influenced a diverse range of writers that includes T. S. Eliot, J.R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Howard Nemerov, and Saul Bellow, and A Study of Owen Barfield's…
Owen Barfield
"History in English Words" by Owen Barfield is a groundbreaking work of linguistic and literary criticism that delves into the intricate evolution of the English language. Owen Barfield, renowned for…
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Eugene Terekhin
This is the second book in my series on the mystical vision of the Inklings. The first one, Eleven Hidden Gems in the Works of the Inklings: the Music of…
‘Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis’ is a collection of essays and lectures about the author, theologian, and literary scholar, C. S. Lewis. Barfield and Lewis were close friends for 44…
Owen A. Barfield
Owen Barfield was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century, the man that C.S. This comprehensive overview supplements major selections with numerous short supporting passages…
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Michael V Di Fuccia
In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield’s poetic philosophy. He argues that philosophies of immanence fail to account for creativity, as is evident in…
‘Speaker’s Meaning’ is a study of language, charting the evolution of human consciousness through the gulf between a speaker’s use of words and their lexical definition. This evolution is directly…
Set in a dystopian future, humanity has been driven underground by fears of terrorist attack. Dwelling in the sewers of an abandoned city, society is closed, crowded, obsessed with security…
This Ever Diverse Pair was first published in 1950, when Barfield was practising as a solicitor in London. A humorous portrayal of everyday life in a lawyer’s office, the novel’s…
What does it mean to be human? ‘The Case for Anthroposophy’ invites us to explore human nature in the true scientific spirit, a will to know and a refusal to…
Unancestral Voice is the story of a modern-day spiritual quest. Step by step, Barfield explores the power of the creative imagination to meet the great challenges of our time. This…
The Rose on the Ash-Heap is the epilogue from ‘English People’ - Barfield’s ambitious unpublished novel of English life between the First and Second World Wars. At once fairy tale…
This study asks why we call a given grouping of words poetry and why these arouse aesthetic imagination . It explores concerns fundamental to the understanding and appreciation of poetry…
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‘Romanticism Comes of Age’ centers on the question; What is the creative imagination and in what way is it true? Owen Barfield insightfully explores the role of imagination in Romantic…
‘History, Guilt and Habit’ is a collection of essays, based on lectures given by the author on the West Coast of North America. This brief, accessible book outlines Barfield’s primary…
Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.
Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 60’s is a fictional conversation among eight people: a physicist, a biologist, a theologian, a philosopher, a psychiatrist, a teacher, a rocket scientist, and…
‘Saving the Appearances’ is about the world as we see it and the world as it is. It is about God, nature and the evolution of consciousness. Barfield takes us…
‘The Rediscovery of Meaning’ is a collection of essays about language, imagination, the human being, society and God. In each, Barfield points to solutions to the modern-day experience of meaningless…
Each new book by Owen Barfield makes it increasingly certain that he is one of the tiny number of truly original and creative thinkers of out time. In the present…
Simon Blaxland-de Lange
A biography of Owen Barfield, philosopher, author, poet and critic.
Featuring the biography of Owen Barfield, this book studies the influences on Barfield by the Romantic poet Coleridge and the philosopher Rudolf Steiner, and focuses on Barfield’s personal connection with…
Daniel J Smitherman
Astrid Diener
Owen Barfield (1898-1997), philosopher, historian, and literary theoretician, is well known for his friendship with C. S. Lewis. What is virtually unknown is that he was also admired and promoted…
Luigi Morelli
Tolkien and Barfield have been brought by destiny into one of the most famous literary circles of the twentieth century. And no two authors could be said to be so…
Albert Linderman
Explores the inner reality of objects, the nature of consciousness and the power of the imagination.
R.J. Reilly
An in-depth study of the four ‘Oxford Christians’ revealing the depths of their creative imagination and the lasting effect of their work. Devoting a chapter to each of Owen Barfield…
The meaning and worth of love as a feeling is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for another the same absolute significance that, because of…
Rudolf Steiner
Written in 1917 (CW 21)
As the mortal part of the sentient human being manifests itself through rhythmic occurrences in the body, so does the immortal spirit-kernel of the soul…
An all-new collection of Barfield's essays and lectures, with a special introduction and notes.
Barfield discusses poetry’s meaning in terms of both his personal experience and objective standards of criticism.
Gareth Knight
The works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield have had a profound impact on the contemporary world. The Magical World of the Inklings…
A classic historical excursion through the English language.
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Ph.D. Hermann Poppelbaum
What is the historical and evolutionary relationship between man and animal? In this classic text, based on the anthroposophical science founded by Rudolf Steiner, Poppelbaum, trained in Biology, compares the…
In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our…
Philip Zaleski,Carol Zaleski
A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
Collection of articles offered as a festschrift to Owen Barfield on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Stephen Thorson
The Great War was a prolonged debate between Lewis and Barfield, fraught with subtle metaphysical and philosophical distinctions. Even Lewis scholars find the arguments and their implications difficult to grasp…
The Tower: Major Poems and Plays presents five literary pieces composed throughout Owen Barfield’s lifetime. Previously unpublished, these works contribute to the corpus of twentieth century literature and express in…
Owen Barfield,Andre J Welburn,Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund
The force of the visionary thought of classic poets is re-evaluated in this text, which makes connections between Milton or Shelley, Blake or Yeats and modern esoteric ideas. Traditional forms…
Owen 1898-1997 Barfield
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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