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In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield's poetic philosophy. He argues that philosophies of immanence fail to account for creativity, as is evident in the false shuttling between modernity's active construal and postmodernity's passive construal of subjectivity. In both extremes subjectivity actually dissolves, divesting one of any creative integrity. Di Fuccia shows how in Barfield's scheme the creative subject appears instead to inhabit a middle or medial realm, which upholds one's creative integrity. It is in this way that Barfield's poetic philosophy gestures toward a theological vision of poiēsis proper, wherein creativity is envisaged as neither purely passive nor purely active, but middle. Creativity, thus, is not immanent but mediated, a participation in being's primordial poiēsis. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Poetry -- Religious aspects.
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Poetry -- Religious aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: 1498238742 9781498238748 (OCoLC)951646340 |
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9781498238731 (electronic book) |
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1498238734 (electronic book) |
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1498238742 |
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9781498238748 |
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