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Is Lewis Attacking a Straw Person?

Is Lewis Attacking a Straw Person? Michael Ward’s guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man is a most welcome and timely addition to the ever-growing corpus on Lewis. First and foremost, it will be of immense value to its immediately intended audience: students who are attempting to come to terms with Lewis’s argument. Any contemporary student reading Lewis faces a number of difficulties. Some are merely parochial: references to events and persons no longer easily identifiable; the use of classical quotations and tags; the employment of a colloquial English no longer entirely current, especially in the USA. Detailed notes on the text enable the student to overcome these hurdles. There are deeper difficulties: in particular, the ethical tradition to which Lewis is appealing is probably even less well known and understood than it was in his own day. In his succinct and lucid summaries of the arguments, Ward fills in the necessary background and illuminates what is obscure. Clear and accessible questions for discussion at the end help the reader check their understanding of the text. Unlike some guides for the student reader, Ward’s book is equally valuable for those familiar with Lewis’s work. It is replete with apposite extracts not only from the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

Is Lewis Attacking a Straw Person?

McNaughton, David
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 11 (2): 9 – Oct 1, 2021
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Michael Ward’s guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man is a most welcome and timely addition to the ever-growing corpus on Lewis. First and foremost, it will be of immense value to its immediately intended audience: students who are attempting to come to terms with Lewis’s argument. Any contemporary student reading Lewis faces a number of difficulties. Some are merely parochial: references to events and persons no longer easily identifiable; the use of classical quotations and tags; the employment of a colloquial English no longer entirely current, especially in the USA. Detailed notes on the text enable the student to overcome these hurdles. There are deeper difficulties: in particular, the ethical tradition to which Lewis is appealing is probably even less well known and understood than it was in his own day. In his succinct and lucid summaries of the arguments, Ward fills in the necessary background and illuminates what is obscure. Clear and accessible questions for discussion at the end help the reader check their understanding of the text. Unlike some guides for the student reader, Ward’s book is equally valuable for those familiar with Lewis’s work. It is replete with apposite extracts not only from the

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