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The central concept defining a technological society is technique.Technique is different from machines, technology, or procedures for attaining an end. "In our technological society, technique is the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity."
Jacques Ellul (/ ɛ ˈ l uː l /; French:; January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor.Noted as a Christian anarchist, Ellul was a longtime professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Bordeaux.
The Meaning of the City is a theological essay by Jacques Ellul which recounts the story of the city in the Bible and seeks to explain the city's biblical significance.. Ellul wrote the book in 1951; it was published in English translation in 1970, and then in French in 1975 as Sans feu ni lieu : Signification biblique de la Grande Ville.
After being discharged as a professor from French universities by the Vichy regime Ellul became a leader in the French resistance during World War II. [1] After the Liberation of France, he became a professor at the University of Bordeaux and wrote 58 books and numerous articles over his lifetime, the dominant theme of which has been the threat to human freedom created by modern technology.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Books by Jacques Ellul" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of ...
Some serious thinkers have suggested revolution as an approach to take, such as Jacques Ellul in his book Autopsy of a Revolution, but the kind of revolution envisioned by Ellul is "vague" and "spiritual" according to Kaczynski, whereas Kaczynski claims that a "real revolution" [15] (such as revolutions that have occurred in the past like the ...
Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition. Wipf & Stock. ISBN 978-1625640581. Sussman, Cornelia; Sussman, Irving (1976). Thomas Merton: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Belltower. Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-788630-1. OCLC 1859733. Theodore, Antony (1993). Thomas Merton's Mystical Quest for Union ...
Here are two important articles written in the 1930s, where Charbonneau explains and lays out the foundation of his thoughts: Directives pour un manifeste personnaliste, 1935 (co-written with Jacques Ellul, available in les Cahiers Jacques-Ellul nº 1, « Les années personnalistes », 2003) and in Nous