![]() ![]() This perspective on the Space Trilogy (an appendix is devoted to the abortive "Dark Tower") brings out the enduring relevance of Lewis's "scientific romances" to contemporary concerns on a wide variety of issues, including our relations to the natural world and the other species with whom we share Earth, the ethical and political problems surrounding the emerging revolution in bio-technology, and the seemingly intractable struggle between religious and naturalistic worldviews in the twenty-first century. ![]() It also shows that the "unfallen" imaginary worlds that Lewis constructs on Mars and Venus are derived not only from classical and medieval sources but also from the transfiguration or "taking up" of the same modern evolutionary paradigm he is ostensibly putting down. It demonstrates that Lewis did not simply dismiss the modern "Developmental Model," as is often assumed, but discriminated carefully among different kinds of evolutionary theory and the manner in which they influenced modern thinking about human nature, social practice, and religious conviction. Lewis's popular Space Trilogy-Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945)-departs from the prevailing emphasis upon Lewis's affection for the "Medieval Model" of the universe and situates Lewis's work in the context of modern intellectual, cultural, and political history. ![]()
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