After Humanity (Michael Ward)

The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, 2023

In-depth review of Michael Ward's book After Humanity, a guide to C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man.

This paper turns a critical eye to related ideologies such as secular humanism, atheism, moral relativism, progressivism, and the anti-procreational and anti-natalist agendas of some modern environmentalists. Reflecting upon C. S. Lewis's idea of the abolition of man, I argue that these ideologies harbor a sinister agenda that advances the abolition-of-man project in a more extreme way than even Lewis dreamed was possible. Far from being objective and neutral, I argue that secular humanism looks and acts very much like a religion. However, because it rejects theism and claims to be scientifically objective, it has been able to get away with exerting its authority in the public sphere in ways that are forbidden to traditional religion.

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016, 2008

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Journal of Inklings studies, 2017

EDITOR: Sandu Frunza, Babes-Bolyai University …

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International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2019

Feminist Review, 2014

Spectra, 2020

Hannah Glasson's review of Cary Wolfe's What is Posthumanism? outlines the theoretical tensions in Wolfe's formulation of posthumanism. Glasson acknowledges the potential for Wolfe's systems theory approach to create more theoretically rigorous approaches to posthumanist ecological ethics. However, the reductive connection between animal studies and disability studies has the potential to marginalize voices of disabled humans in the aim to decenter the human. The human remains central to Wolfe's notion of posthumanism with the effect of lessening the rhetorical force of the argument. Wolfe provokes a theoretical conversation that could make way for rethinking the anthropocentric location of critical discourse by creating space for recognition of the nonhuman. This conversation can potentially open possibilities broader than simply using posthumanism as a theoretical tool to reimagine existing human undertakings, disciplines, and knowledges.