Published during the Second World War, The Abolition of Man has not aged a bit; it even seems that its message is more relevant than ever. Although the subtitle of the original English edition indicates that the themes covered are reflections on education, Lewis broadens the debate from the first chapter. In fact there is little question of pedagogy here, and education only serves as a starting point for the author's reflections. The abolition of man actually deals with the tendencies of our contemporaries to attempt to subject human thought and the human soul no longer to values, but to natural facts and phenomena, which can only lead to abolition of humanity. Certainly, Lewis is not the only one to demonstrate how the breakdown of the values of traditional morality progressively empties man of his substance and dehumanizes him, but he is one of the few to so clearly perceive the disastrous consequences.
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