405: Barfield - Myth is the Ghost of Concrete Meaning
Published: August 22, 2025
Duration: 3:02:23
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<...