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Star Pupil Michael Ward has done it again. Fourteen years after Ward rocked the C.S. Lewis world with Planet Narnia, a book that uncovered the planetary key to uncovering the medieval cosmological treasure of the Chronicles of Narnia, Ward has given us After Humanity, a book that unearths the inventive origins of C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. To be sure, After Humanity is not nearly so ground-breaking. It does not open a hitherto unnoticed shaft into an already well-beloved text. But its excavation does widen the entryway and clear out some rockier passages that have deterred many from mining the riches available in one of Lewis’s comparatively more obscure texts. Even veteran miners of Abolition will appreciate the air vents and scaffolding that Ward has put up along the way. The table of contents notwithstanding, the book can be divided into five main sections, which vary greatly in length: (1) Six short introductory chapters, averaging six pages, cover Abolition’s ‘Reception’ (better than Lewis initially thought, but it was not as popular as his other work), ‘Occasion and Context’ (the sweeping influence of logical positivism, with special reference to I.A. Richards and A.J. Ayer), content (in ‘Overview’,anefficient summary of each chapter http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

Star Pupil

Peterson, Josiah
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 11 (2): 6 – Oct 1, 2021
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Michael Ward has done it again. Fourteen years after Ward rocked the C.S. Lewis world with Planet Narnia, a book that uncovered the planetary key to uncovering the medieval cosmological treasure of the Chronicles of Narnia, Ward has given us After Humanity, a book that unearths the inventive origins of C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. To be sure, After Humanity is not nearly so ground-breaking. It does not open a hitherto unnoticed shaft into an already well-beloved text. But its excavation does widen the entryway and clear out some rockier passages that have deterred many from mining the riches available in one of Lewis’s comparatively more obscure texts. Even veteran miners of Abolition will appreciate the air vents and scaffolding that Ward has put up along the way. The table of contents notwithstanding, the book can be divided into five main sections, which vary greatly in length: (1) Six short introductory chapters, averaging six pages, cover Abolition’s ‘Reception’ (better than Lewis initially thought, but it was not as popular as his other work), ‘Occasion and Context’ (the sweeping influence of logical positivism, with special reference to I.A. Richards and A.J. Ayer), content (in ‘Overview’,anefficient summary of each chapter

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Published: Oct 1, 2021

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