The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology--which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind--threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book. A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.--Harper's One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself--unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.--The Nation A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.--Los Angeles Free PressJacques Ellul was a Christian anarchist and philosopher from France. For many years, he was a professor of institutional history and sociology at the Université of Bordeaux's Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences. Ellul is a philosopher with a special interest in technology and the danger of technological tyranny, despite his training as a sociologist. The slogan Think globally, act locally is reported to have been coined by him. Propaganda, The Political Illusion, The Theology Basis of Law, The Meaning of the City, and many others are among his works. At the age of 82, Jacques Ellul died in 1994.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780394703909 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394703901 |
| Title | The Technological Society |
| Author | Jacques Ellul |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1967-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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