The Great War of Owen Barfield and C. S. Lewis

by C. S. Lewis

  • Year 2015
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre philosophy
  • Tradition Anglican
  • Original language English

For For specialists in Lewis's philosophy and the Inklings; difficult writings from a private debate, not for general readers.

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Lewis's side of his 1920s philosophical dispute with Owen Barfield over imagination, truth and anthroposophy, edited by Norbert Feinendegen and Arend Smilde.

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An edition of the philosophical writings that Lewis and Owen Barfield exchanged between 1927 and 1930 in what Lewis called their 'Great War', a long argument about imagination, knowledge and truth prompted by Barfield's acceptance of anthroposophy. Lewis's side, written before his conversion, includes the Latin-titled treatise Clivi Hamiltonis Summae Metaphysices contra Anthroposophos and other papers. The volume was edited by Norbert Feinendegen and Arend Smilde and published in 2015 as the first of the Inklings Studies Supplements. Lewis said in Surprised by Joy that the debate changed his thinking; these texts allow it to be studied directly.

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Catalog IDW.046Q15.G

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