{"product_id":"owen-barfields-poetic-philosophy-meaning-and-imagination-9781350420328","title":"Owen Barfield's Poetic Philosophy: Meaning and Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe first book to offer an overview, at once introductory and comprehensive, of the philosophical thought of Owen Barfield, sometimes known as the \"first and last Inkling\" and as the \"British Heidegger.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning by placing Barfield's early poetics in the context of the critical hurly-burly of modernist London of the 1920s, \u003ci\u003eOwen Barfield's Poetic Philosophy: Meaning and Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Barfield's subsequent development of a philosophy of history, metaphysics, and ethics culminates in his development of a poetic cosmology. Hipolito situates Barfield's poetic philosophy in relation to his significant contemporaries (and predecessors) including T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, I.A. Richards, Jean Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer, bringing to light for the first time many important aspects of Barfield's thought. The book concludes with an analysis of the Burgeon trilogy, in which Barfield recapitulates the themes and arguments of his poetic philosophy by exemplifying them in three genre-defying works of fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructured chronologically and giving a systematic examination of Barfield's thought, \u003ci\u003eOwen Barfield's Poetic Philosophy \u003c\/i\u003epaints a much-needed picture of a major thinker and poet, who was entirely engaged with his times and who remains crucially relevant to our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Hipolito\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar living in Seattle, USA. He has published articles and essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, European Romantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRenascence, Journal of Inklings Studies, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVII, \u003c\/i\u003eand is the current chairperson of the Owen Barfield Society.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676092530962,"sku":"9781350420328","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d5db5c3-a3d7-4110-a851-9279239f6f2a.jpg?v=1761042237","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/owen-barfields-poetic-philosophy-meaning-and-imagination-9781350420328","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}