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Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology

Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology

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Series: Veritas, Book 20

General Christianity

Publisher Price: $37.00

ISBN10: 1498238726
ISBN13: 9781498238724
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Oct 27 2016
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield's poetic philosophy. He argues that philosophies of immanence fail to account for creativity, as is evident in the false shuttling between modernity's active construal and postmodernity's passive construal of subjectivity. In both extremes subjectivity actually dissolves, divesting one of any creative integrity. Di Fuccia shows how in Barfield's scheme the creative subject appears instead to inhabit a middle or medial realm, which upholds one's creative integrity. It is in this way that Barfield's poetic philosophy gestures toward a theological vision of poiēsis proper, wherein creativity is envisaged as neither purely passive nor purely active, but middle. Creativity, thus, is not immanent but mediated, a participation in being's primordial poiēsis.

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