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Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November 1898 – 14 December 1997) was an English philosopher, author, poet, critic, and member of the Inklings.
Owen Barfield: author, philosopher of the Evolution of Consciousness, and member of the Inklings alongside C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Owen Barfield, one of the great minds in the Anglophone world in the twentieth century, had a writing career that spanned seventy-five years. Sometimes known as the “first and last Inkling” or “the British Heidegger,” he is more than these labels.
Aug 31, 2022 · Owen Barfield was one of C.S. Lewis' closest friends, a key influence on Lewis' journey to Christianity, and a unique writer of poetry, philosophy and fiction. So why have so few people heard about him today?
May 7, 2019 · On the Edge of the Unthinkable: An Interview with Owen Barfield. This interview was conducted by James Wetmore in 1996, about a year before Barfield's death at age ninety-nine. James (who at the time of the interview was connected to the Perennialist movement) kept the interview in his archives, unpublished, until he offered it to me for the ...
Owen Barfield has been called a “learned anti-reductionist writer”. In this essay on nature (the phenomena) and philosophy (spirit) it is suggested how the two form a dialectical unity, and how anti-reductionism works, without obscurantism.
Nov 9, 2021 · Owen A. Barfield is not only trustee of his grandfather’s legacy, but is actively involved with keeping his work alive and well. Being fluent with both the life and ideas of Barfield, the first and last Inkling, Owen was a joy to converse with.
C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) was a British author and lifelong friend of Owen Barfield, whom he described as “the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.” Discover more about Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis
Dec 20, 1997 · Owen Barfield, writer and philosopher of language and last surviving member of Inklings, group of Oxford intellectuals who held discussions about Christianity and mythology at C S...
Dec 14, 1997 · Owen Barfield. Arthur Owen Barfield was a British philosopher, author, poet, and critic. Barfield was born in London. He was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford and in 1920 received a first class degree in English language and literature.
