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A Critical and Sympathetic Guide

A Critical and Sympathetic Guide Book Symposium on After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s ‘The Abolition of Man’ by Michael Ward Germaine Paulo Walsh, Josiah Peterson, Pavlos Papadopoulos, and David McNaughton This is a book that lives up to its subtitle: ‘A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man’. It may be best to begin by explaining why such a guide is needed. Near the beginning of the chapter ‘Background’, Michael Ward discusses Lewis’s own conception of the centrality of The Abolition of Man to his works as a whole. In many of his subsequent writings, Lewis referred explicitly to Abolition, urging his readers to consult that text, and he often utilized concepts as well as specific arguments initially developed in Abolition. As Ward states, one could characterize Abolition as ‘the philosophical theme of Lewis’s output and his other work as its variations’ (24). Understood in this way, one quickly grasps Abolition as the key to understanding Lewis’s thought as a whole, in that it ‘distils or foreshadows much of what most deeply concerned him throughout the rest of his writing career’ (24). In a series of mostly short but densely packed chapters, Ward provides an exhaustive account of the background, context, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

A Critical and Sympathetic Guide

Walsh, Germaine Paulo
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 11 (2): 4 – Oct 1, 2021
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Book Symposium on After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s ‘The Abolition of Man’ by Michael Ward Germaine Paulo Walsh, Josiah Peterson, Pavlos Papadopoulos, and David McNaughton This is a book that lives up to its subtitle: ‘A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man’. It may be best to begin by explaining why such a guide is needed. Near the beginning of the chapter ‘Background’, Michael Ward discusses Lewis’s own conception of the centrality of The Abolition of Man to his works as a whole. In many of his subsequent writings, Lewis referred explicitly to Abolition, urging his readers to consult that text, and he often utilized concepts as well as specific arguments initially developed in Abolition. As Ward states, one could characterize Abolition as ‘the philosophical theme of Lewis’s output and his other work as its variations’ (24). Understood in this way, one quickly grasps Abolition as the key to understanding Lewis’s thought as a whole, in that it ‘distils or foreshadows much of what most deeply concerned him throughout the rest of his writing career’ (24). In a series of mostly short but densely packed chapters, Ward provides an exhaustive account of the background, context,

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Published: Oct 1, 2021

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