Introduced by Inklings scholar Sarah O’Dell, this original manuscript for a talk Owen Barfield gave at a 1980 symposium for “Knowledge, Education, and Human Values” explores the presuppositions behind contemporary use of the term “values” and proposes a reconfigured relationship between language and human consciousness.
Author, philosopher, and attorney (1898-1997)
Sarah O’Dell, PhD, is an MD/PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, where she is the first to complete a PhD in English within a dual MD/PhD program. As a future physician-scholar and psychiatrist, she is passionate about how the activity of the imagination—as shaped by literature, faith, and the arts helps heal the mind. Reflecting this core interest, her dissertation research presents the first combined study of the early Gothic novel, religious studies, and the history of psychiatry. She is also an active C.S. Lewis and Inklings scholar, with a particular focus on Lewis’s friend, physician, and fellow Inkling, R.E. Havard. Her current book project, The Medical Inkling (under contract at Kent State UP), not only explores Havard’s roles as a physician, Inkling, and Catholic writer, but also reveals how his medical imagination influenced C.S. Lewis. Her research has previously appeared in Mythlore, VII, and the Journal of Medical Humanities. She is a recent Harvey Fellow as well as a recipient of the 2023 Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship. Additional updates can be found on her website: sarahodellmdphd.com.
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