Present Concerns

C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—was one of the foremost religious philosophers of the twentieth century; a thinker whose far-reaching influence on Christianity continues to be felt today.

Demonstrating Lewis’s wide range of interests, Present Concerns includes nineteen essays that reveal his thoughts about democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, literary censorship, and other timely topics, offering invaluable wisdom for our own times.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Necessity of Chivalry
2. Equality
3. Three Kinds of Men
4. My First School
5. Is English Doomed?
6. Democratic Education
7. A Dream
8. Blimpophobia
9. Private Bates
10. Hedonics
11. After Priggery—What?
12. Modern Man and His Categories of Thought
13. Talking About Bicycles
14. On Living in an Atomic Age
15. The Empty Universe
16. Prudery and Philology
17. Interim Report
18. Is History Bunk?
19. Sex in Literature