Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry

by Owen Barfield

Overview

'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 on an epic journey through the history of human thought - from the primordial consciousness of early man to that of our own times, evoking a wide range of sources including anthropology, physics, theology, and linguistics. "Owen Barfield is a paradigm-busting Christian thinker, and this is a book that will not go out of date."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780955958281
Publisher:	Barfield Press UK
Publication date:	01/17/2011
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	244
Sales rank:	211,633
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

A respected philosopher, jurist, and student of the nature of language and human consciousness, OWEN BARFIELD's many books published by Wesleyan include Saving the Appearances (1988), Poetic Diction (1984), and Worlds Apart (1971). He lived in East Sussex, England, at the time of his death in 1997 at the age of 99.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Wesleyan Edition
Introduction
The Rainbow
Collective Representations
Figuration and Thinking
Participation
Pre-History
Original Participation
Appearance and Hypothesis
Technology and Truth
An Evolution of Idols
The Evolution of Phenomena
Medieval Environment
Some Changes
The Texture of Medieval Thought
Before and After the Scientific Revolution
The Graeco-Roman Age (Mind and Motion)
Israel
The Development of Meaning
The Origin of Language
Symptoms of Iconoclasm
Final Participation
Saving the Appearances
Space Time and Wisdom
Religion
The Incarnation Of the Word
The Mystery of the Kingdom
Index

What People are Saying About This

Saul Bellow

“We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free … from the prison we have made for ourselves by our ways of knowing, our limited and false habits of thought, our ‘common sense’”

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"We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison we have made for ourselves by our ways of knowing, our limited and false habits of thought, our 'common sense'"—Saul Bellow

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book of very high distinction. It is basic, profound, original, and difficult. Time may seal it as a masterpiece...It contains an entirely original approach to Christian perplexities, and it refounds Christian hope on a new and sound base. It is a great book, and it takes one into new worlds of opportunity."—Church Times

"We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison we have made for ourselves by our ways of knowing, our limited and false habits of thought, our 'common sense'"—Saul Bellow

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