Abstract
T aken in isolation, The Abolition of Man is different from most of C. S. Lewis’s other works. It is not a work of fiction or a work of expressly Christian apologetics. It is, however, rightly recognized by Dyer and Watson as “the lynchpin for understanding of all of [Lewis’s] work.”1 The thesis set out in The Abolition of Man is foundational to C. S. Lewis’s worldview. Lewis explored its implications in the third novel in his scientific trilogy, That Hideous Strength, which Lewis expressly described as a story whose moral was “the serious “point” which I have tried to make in my Abolition of Man. 2 In the last decade, there has been renewed attention in The Abolition of Man. Michael Ward has published a critical commentary on The Abolition of Man, 3 while Justin Buckley Dyer and Michael J. Watson have written a book analysing Lewis’s views on politics and natural law.4 John Gray has described The Abolition of Man as “prescient,” “prophetic” and at least as relevant now as it was when it first came out.
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David H. McIlroy
(2024)
"The Importance of Recognizing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: C. S. Lewis’s Antidote to the Poison of Subjectivism,"
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal: Vol. 18
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/1940-5537.1466
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