Saving the Appearances: A Study in IdolatryWesleyan University Press, 1988 - 191 pages Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
THE RAINBOW | 15 |
COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS | 19 |
FIGURATION AND THINKING | 22 |
PARTICIPATION | 28 |
PREHISTORY | 36 |
ORIGINAL PARTICIPATION | 40 |
APPEARANCE AND HYPOTHESIS | 46 |
BEFORe and after THE SCIENTIFIC | 92 |
THE GRAECOROMAN AGE MInd and | 96 |
ISRAEL | 107 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEANING page | 116 |
THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE | 122 |
SYMPTOMS OF ICONOCLASM | 126 |
FINAL PARTICIPATION | 133 |
SAVING THE APPEARANCES | 142 |