Speaker’s Meaning

by Owen Barfield
ISBN: 9781597311120
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Format: Paperback

Price: £13.95

Each new book by Owen Barfield, philosopher, jurist,
student of the nature of language and human consciousness,
makes it increasingly certain that he is one of the tiny number of truly original and creative thinkers of our time. In the present work, based on lectures read at Brandeis University in 1965, Barfield sets out "to consider what light the three subjects of history, language, and literature can be made to shed on each other," topics of central interest to him since his early years; and as his readers have come to expect, his consideration of them is wonderfully subtle, far-ranging, and buttressed by impressive erudition.

"Though his erudite yet clearly phrased observations
will be of particular interest to students of history,
semantics, philosophy, and literature, they owe their
significance precisely to the interweaving of all these
into a single fabric, which is in effect a survey of Western thought concerning expression and communication."
—Literary Journal

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