ABSTRACT
C. S. Lewis was offered little constructive or critical feedback for The Abolition of Man. It is very safe to assume that he was supported by those, such as his close friend and fellow Inkling Owen Barfield, who agreed with his philosophical positions; Barfield wrote to him saying that the book was "a real triumph" which brought together "precision of thought, liveliness of expression and depth of meaning". C. S. Lewis never retracted any of the ideas he proposed in The Abolition of Man, and in his subsequent fiction and non-fiction he continued to highlight the moral, social, and aesthetic cost of the scientific world view. The somewhat terminal decline in the popularity of the new philosophical schools was unrelated to Lewis's criticisms of them. In a sense, therefore, the philosophical landscape changed before any consensus between them could be reached.
