Welcome to “The Inklings Variety Hour,” where fans and scholars discuss the lives and works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and the works and authors that inspired them.
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Welcome to “The Inklings Variety Hour,” where fans and scholars discuss the lives and works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and the works and authors that inspired them.
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.
The Inklings Variety Hour
Welcome to “The Inklings Variety Hour,” where fans and scholars discuss the lives and works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and the works and authors that inspired them.
