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1	Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist In this study, Owen 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. see all copies from $2.87! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
2	Poetic diction : a study in meaning. more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist 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, including the nature of metaphor, the difference between verse and prose, and the essence of meaning. see all copies from $10.44! new only from $14.68! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Rediscovery of Meaning and Other Essays more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist "Owen Barfield has unusual ideas about human nature and reality.. Now this seasoned British thinker.offers a collection of [essays] 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 ... see all copies from $5.82! new only from $21.91! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Worlds Apart more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist "In the great English tradition of the lay specialist, Barfield, a lawyer, modernizes the Platonic dialogue format to focus on the philosophic problems of reality and ways of knowing.. This is the solvent mind at its best-distinguished exchanges giving provocative, open-ended results at every point. Highly recommended. of permanent value." -Choice ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $21.57! \| first editions \| SVS
5	What Coleridge Thought more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist Even a casual survey of the varied prose works in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge expressed his ideas on life and art gives immediately the impressioin of irreducible chaos. Beyond the simple physical disperson of these works-the numerous letters and lectures, the involute noteboooks, the several works published and unpublished in addition to The ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $24.51! \| SVS
6	Calendar of the Soul: The Year Participated more books like this by Rudolf Steiner, Owen Barfield (Translator) add to wishlist In listening to the changing language of the year, said Rudolf Steiner, we can rediscover our individual nature. These meditative verses?one for each week of the year?help awaken a feeling of unity with nature while also stimulating self-discovery. Through intensive work, Steiner's unique meditations will lead to a greater feeling of unity with ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $6.25! \| SVS
7	Light on C.S.Lewis more books like this by Jocelyn Gibb (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.24! first editions
8	Romanticism Comes of Age more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist Owen Barfield is unique in havin combined the work of a solicitor wit the profession of literature. In the latter his speciality has been the province of speech and words, and the history and philosophy of meaning. His works on these subjects have long won enthusiastic recognition in university circles, but are now reaching a wider public. He has ... see all copies from $18.50! new only from $22.58! \| SVS
9	Hist of English Words by Owen Barfield add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00!
10	Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis more books like this by Owen Barfield, G B B Tennyson (Editor) add to wishlist C. S. Lewis, theologian and literary scholar, and Owen Barfield, philosopher and London solicitor, were longtime friends. G. B. Tennyson, editor of these papers by Barfield on Lewis, believes this relationship of "two immense intellects" "one of the most absorbing literary friendships of the twentieth century." Lewis called Barfield the "wisest ... see all copies from $12.10! new only from $19.74! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Unancestral Voice more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist "In the great English tradition of the lay specialist, Barfield, a lawyer, modernizes the Platonic dialogue format to focus on the philosophic problems of reality and ways of knowing.. This is the solvent mind at its best-distinguished exchanges giving provocative, open-ended results at every point. Highly recommended. of permanent value." Owen ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $19.66! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Speaker's Meaning more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist 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 work, based on lectures read at Brandeis University in 1965, Mr. Barfield sets out "to consider what light the three subjects of history, language, and literature can be made to shed on ... see all copies from $7.87! new only from $19.51! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Karma of Materialism more books like this by Rudolf Steiner, Owen Barfield (Designer) add to wishlist Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows its consequences for human evolution. This volume, along with Aspects of Human Evolution, completes the entire German volume GA 176. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $21.22!
14 view cover	History in English Words more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist A classic historical excursion through the English language. Owen Barfield's original and thought-provoking works over three-quarters of a century made him a legendary cult figure. This popular book provides a brief, brilliant history of those who have spoken the Indo-European tongues. It is illustrated throughout by current English words - whose ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $15.60! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	History, Guilt and Habit more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist 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 Few books [besides History, Guilt and Habit] . would provide a better ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $19.51! \| SVS
16	The Silver Trumpet more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist Princess Violetta and Princess Gambetta were alike in every way and no one could tell them apart until the arrival of Prince Courtesy, whose silver trumpet reveals their true differences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Barfield Reader more books like this by Owen Barfield, G B Tennyson (Introduction by) add to wishlist A representative selection from the major writings of the man C. S. Lewis called "the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers." see all copies from $11.00! new only from $14.52! \| SVS
18 view cover	Eager Spring more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist A young academic is drawn towards activism when she is increasingly troubled by the growing threat of biocides. Through Virginia Brooke, Barfield charts the mental and spiritual journey of a thinking person - and, by extension, of all thinking persons - faced with "the need for action and the obligation to take it." From environmental thriller to ... see all copies from $13.49! new only from $13.49! \| SVS
19	Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield more books like this by Owen Barfield, Thomas Kranidas (Editor), Jeanne Clayton Hunter (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $16.11! new only from $16.11!
20	Hope Evolution and Change more books like this by John Davy, Gudron Davy, Owen Barfield (Introduction by) add to wishlist Contains 27 articles, which reflect the author's work as a scientist, journalist and lecturer: articles on evolutionary questions, language, education, science, ecology, life after life, and contemporary thinkers such as Schmacher and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.81!
21	Orpheus: A Poetic Drama more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Night Operation more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist 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 and its own biological processes. In our post-9/11 world, Barfield's portrayal of the repressive, claustrophobic effects of anxiety on human communities is ... see all copies from $12.89! new only from $12.89! \| SVS
23	Voice of Cecil Harwood by Owen Barfield (Editor), A C Harwood add to wishlist see all copies from $37.42! first editions
24	The Work of the Angels in Man's Astral Body more books like this by Rudolf Steiner, Owen Barfield (Translator), D. S. Osmond (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.20!
25	The year participated : being Rudolf Steiner's Calender of the soul more books like this by Rudolf Steiner, Owen Barfield add to wishlist see all copies from $59.98!

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