History In English Words by Owen Barfield
A Contribution to Historical Semantics
A detailed philological and philosophical study that traces how shifts in the meanings of key English words reflect deeper changes in Western thought and human consciousness, arguing that the history of terms such as nature, imagination, soul, person, and meaning reveals a movement from an earlier participatory mode of experience toward increasing abstraction and separation, and suggesting that tracking semantic change can illuminate the cultural, intellectual and spiritual transformations from antiquity through the modern age and point toward ways of recovering a more integrated sense of meaning.
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- 1926
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