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405: Barfield - Myth is the Ghost of Concrete Meaning

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Little Plastic Castles. In this episode, we read the first Inkling, Owen Barfield, as he defends the use of old words, old stories, and old ways of expressing what’s good, beautiful, and true against modern proponents that argued for more modern “scientific” ways of judging language, esp., poetics and myth, as well as religion and culture.

SHOW NOTES: 

Owen Barfield Bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Barfield

Barfield 1517 Article https://www.1517.org/articles/unsung-inklings-owen-barfield

Poetic Diction https://owenbarfield.org/selected-books/poetic-diction/

Anthroposophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy

John Moriarty https://www.johnmoriarty.ie

Milgichrist https://www.ted.com/talks/iain_mcgilchrist_the_divided_brain

Tolkien's Dictionary https://dn720808.ca.archive.org/0/items/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_dictionarium-saxonico-la_somner-william_1659/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_dictionarium-saxonico-la_somner-william_1659.pdf

Christ the Appletree https://hymnary.org/text/the_tree_of_life_my_soul_hath_seen

Chaucer - The Knight's Tale https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/knights-tale-0

 

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