Consciousness Philosophy of science Philosophy of mind Religion and science
Publisher
Wesleyan, Barfield Press
Publication date
1957
Publication place
United Kingdom
Media type
Paperback, Hardcover
Pages
191 (Wesleyan ed.)
ISBN
978-0955958281
Dewey Decimal
126
LC Class
BL240.2.B38 1988
Preceded by
This Ever Diverse Pair (1950)
Followed by
Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960s (1963)
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry, a book by British philosopher Owen Barfield, is concerned with physics, the evolution of consciousness, pre-history, ancient Greece, ancient Israel, the medieval period, the scientific revolution, Christianity, Romanticism, and much else. The book was Barfield's favorite of those he wrote, and the one that he most wanted to continue to be read.[1]
It was first published in England in 1957, and it was first issued in paperback in the United States in 1965. According to Barfield, the book enjoyed a far greater reception by the public in the United States, where Barfield often accepted invitations to lecture, than it did in England.[2]
The book explores approximately three thousand years of history — particularly the history of human consciousness in relation to that which precedes or underlies the world of perception or phenomena. Given the vast field considered by the book, it is concise and brief, about two hundred pages.
Barfield describes the growth of human consciousness as an interaction with nature, leading the reader to a fresh understanding of man's history, circumstances, and destiny. Saving the Appearances has in common with some thoughts of Teilhard de Chardin the understanding of idols as appearances having nothing within. "[A] representation, which is collectively mistaken for an ultimate – ought not to be called a representation. It is an idol. Thus the phenomena themselves are idols, when they are imagined as enjoying that independence of human perception which can in fact only pertain to the unrepresented."[3]
^Lavery, "How Barfield thought", p. 15."
^Barfield, Saving the Appearances, p. 5.
^Altizer, "Review of Worlds Apart", page 384.
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