What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about education and modern culture?

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about education and modern culture was The Abolition of Man.

The work began as three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in 1943. Lewis criticized an approach to education that, in his view, treated moral judgments as merely subjective emotional reactions. He argued instead for the importance of objective value and trained moral sentiment.

The book is divided into three chapters: “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.” Its argument moves from classroom instruction to ethics, then to the possible consequences of using technology to reshape human nature.

The title does not mean a literal disappearance of humanity. It refers to Lewis’s warning that abandoning objective moral formation could produce people who possess technical power but lack the character needed to direct it well. The book is distinct from The Four Loves, a 1960 discussion of kinds of love, and A Grief Observed, his 1961 work on bereavement.