Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry by Barfield, Owen - 1988-08-15

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Wesleyan University Press, 1988. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. Very good or better paperback. No condition issues to report. A solid copy!

Wesleyan University Press, August 1988. Paper Back. New. Maybe the best known of Barfield's books, <i>Saving the Appearances</i> professes itself to be 'not so much a new discovery or a new idea as a different 'slant'' (to quote the author) on the history of human consciousness. Rather than seeing man (as Sartre did) as a being condemned to freedom-a hollow man by all accounts-Barfield sees him to be 'the theatre on which participation has died to rise again.' Just exactly what he means by that requires a dedicated reading of Barfield's particular, and original, approach to Christian perplexities. Drawing illustrations from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science, Barfield chronicles the evolution of human thought, tracing the disappearance of what he terms <i>participation</i> (a vague but immediate awareness of the meaning of phenomena) and the subsequent appearance of symbolism (the experience of phenomena as… Read More

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Wesleyan Univ Pr, 1988. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 191 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Wesleyan Univ Pr, 1988. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 191 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches.

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