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Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
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Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 13
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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 society, the notion of efficiency, the process of
symbolization/de-symbolization, and ecology. The second analyzes
communicational and cultural problems, as well as threats and
trends in early twenty-first century societies. Many of the issues
Ellul saw as crucial - such as energy, propaganda, applied life
sciences and communication - continue to be so. In fact they have
grown exponentially, on a global scale, producing new forms of
risk. Essays in the final section examine the duality of reason and
revelation. They pursue an understanding of Ellul in terms of the
depth of experience and the traditions of human knowledge, which is
to say, on the one hand, the experience of the human being as
contained in the rationalist, sociological and philosophical
traditions. On the other hand there are the transcendent roots of
human existence, as well as "revealed knowledge," in the mystical
and religious traditions. The meeting of these two traditions
enables us to look at Ellul's work as a whole, but above all it
opens up a space for examining religious life in the technological
society.
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