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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
| Series: | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Ellul returns; Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José Luís Garcia and Carl Mitcham
- Part I. Civilization of Technique
- Chapter 1. How The Technological Society Became More Important in the United States than in France; Carl Mitcham
- Chapter 2. The Technological Society: Social Theory, McDonaldization and the Prosumer; George Ritzer
- Chapter 3. Are We Still Pursuing Efficiency? Interpreting Jacques Ellul’s Efficiency Principle; Wha-Chul Son
- Chapter 4. Technological Acceleration and the “Ground Floor of Civilization”; Daniel Cérézuelle
- Chapter 5. Technological System and the Problem of Desymbolization; Yuk Hui
- Chapter 6. Against Environmental Protection? Ecological Modernization as “Technician Ecology”; Isabelle Lamaud
- Part II. Autonomous Technology
- Chapter 7. Propaganda and Dissociation from Truth; Langdon Winner
- Chapter 8. An Unseasonable Thinker: How Ellul Engages Cybercultural Criticism; Andoni Alonso
- Chapter 9. Fukushima: A Tsunami of Technological Order; José Luís Garcia and Helena Mateus Jerónimo
- Chapter 10. From the Contaminated Blood Affair to the Mediator Scandal: Public Health, Political Responsibility and Democracy; Patrick Troude-Chastenet
- Chapter 11. Homo Energeticus: Technological Rationality in the Alberta Tar Sands; Nathan Kowalsky and Randolph Haluza-DeLay
- Part III. Reason and Revelation
- Chapter 12. The Reception of Jacques Ellul’s Thought in French Protestantism; Frédéric Rognon
- Chapter 13. Radically Religious: Ecumenical Roots of the Critique of Technological Society; Jennifer Karns Alexander
- Chapter 14. Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone; Virginia W. Landgraf
- Chapter 15. Social Intolerability of the Christian Revelation: A Comparative Perspective on the Works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger; Andrei Ivan
- Chapter 16. Postmodernity, the Phenomenal Mistake: Sacred, Myth and Environment; Gregory Wagenfuhr