A Secret History of Consciousness by Lachman Gary

Author:Lachman, Gary [Lachman, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781584204930
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
Published: 2017-05-02T04:00:00+00:00

PART FOUR

Participatory Epistemology

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The Shock of Metaphor

Owen Barfield, who died in 1997 at the age of ninety-nine, is perhaps best known for being the close friend of C. S. Lewis. With Lewis, Charles Williams, and J. R. R. Tolkien, Barfield is also known for being a member of the Oxford literary group, the Inklings. To a smaller but by no means less dedicated audience, he is probably the most articulate interpreter of the ideas of Rudolf Steiner. But before he became the most literate and philosophical of Steiner's many apologists, Barfield had made a small reputation for himself in 1926 with the publication of his first book, History in English Words. As the title suggests, the book deals with history and language, but not in the way one might immediately think. It was not “History and English Words,” but “History in English Words”—meaning that history could be found within the words themselves. As Barfield wrote,

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