The Rediscovery of Meaning: And Other Essays"Owen Barfield has unusual ideas about human nature and reality.. Now this seasoned British thinker.offers a collection of Żessays ̈ that reflects the entire range of his interests, including the philosophy of science, physics, biology, psychology, metaphysics, aesthetics, literature, linguistics, and religion.. He is a prophet of the New Consciousness who has been around a long time; and he may well be the most comprehensive and critically incisive of them all." -The Kirkus Reviews |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Dream Myth and Philosophical Double Vision | 24 |
Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction | 49 |
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