The Abolition of Man: A Roundtable

Chris invites several guests to talk about the following question in a two-hour roundtable special:

To what extent is Lewis' The Abolition of Man prescient or prophetic?

I really enjoyed this roundtable discussion between:

• Nathan Gilmour
• James LaPeyre
• Joseph Weigel

and

• Jonathan Geltner

I hope you will, too.

We talk a lot about the following subjects:

• What Lewis means by "nature"
• Whether Lewis is, being coy, retreating into simplicity, playing a "forced card trick" or some other manner of knavish chicanery
• Whether Lewis eternalizes historically contingent ideas, such as the Romantic view of the sublime
• Wittgenstein
• McIntyre
• Barfield
• The importance of story
• Whether the difference between moderns and ancients is as great as Lewis assumes
• Whether we should have that appendix out or not

Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to add your two cents!

I know, this isn't exactly beach listening, but I sure enjoyed it. We'll be back again in two weeks with lighter fare.