Jacques Ellul and the technological society in the 21st Century
This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the imp...
| Other Authors: | Jerónimo, Helena Mateus., Garcia, José Luís, 1955 October 2-, Mitcham, Carl., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Philosophy of engineering and technology ;
v. 13. |
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| Summary: |
This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul's diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological socie. |
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Includes index. This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul's diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological socie. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Ellul returns / Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José Luís Garcia, Carl Mitcham -- Part I: Civilization of technique -- How the technological society became more important in the United States than in France / Carl Mitcham -- The technological society : Social theory, McDonaldization and the prosumer / George Ritzer -- Are we still pursuing efficiency? : interpreting Jacques Ellul's efficiency principle / Wha-Chul Son -- Technological acceleration and the "ground floor of civilization" / Daniel Cérézuelle -- Technological system and the problem of desymbolization / Yuk Hui -- Against environmental protection? : ecological modernization as "technician ecology" / Isabelle Lamaud. Part II: Autonomous technology -- Propaganda and dissociation from truth / Langdon Winner -- An unseasonable thinker : how Ellul engages cybercultural criticism / Andoni Alonso -- Fukushima : a tsunami of technological order / José Luís Garcia, Helena Mateus Jerónimo -- From "the contaminated blood affair" to the mediator scandal : public health, political responsibility, and democracy / Patrick Troude-Chastenet -- Homo Energeticus : technological rationality in the Alberta Tar Sands / Nathan Kowalsky, Randolph Haluza-DeLay. Part III: Reason and revelation -- The reception of Jacques Ellul's thought in French Protestantism / Frédéric Rognon -- Radically religious : ecumenical roots of the critique of technological society / Jennifer Karns Alexander -- Truth, reality and the Ten Commandments : not for theology alone / Virginia W. Landgraf -- Social intolerability of the Christian Revelation : a comparative perspective on the works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger / Andrei Ivan -- Postmodernity, the phenomenal mistake : sacred, myth and environment / Gregory Wagenfuhr. English. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789400766587 9400766580 9400766572 9789400766570 |
| ISSN: |
1879-7202 ; |