The Technological System - Couverture souple

Ellul, Jacques

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1532615256 ISBN 13 : 9781532615252

Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 2018

Synopsis

Some 20 years after writing The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul realized how the totalistic dimensions of our modern technological milieu required an additional treatment of the topic. Writing amidst the rise of books in the 1970s on pollution, over-population, and environmental degradation, Ellul found it necessary, once again, to write about the global presence of technology and its far-reaching effects. The Technological System represents a new stage in Ellul's research. Previously he studied technological society as such; in this book he approaches the topic from a systems perspective wherein he identifies the characteristics of technological phenomena and technological progress in light of system theory. This leads to an entirely new approach to what constitutes the most important event of our society which has decisive bearing on the future of our world. Ellul's analysis touches on all aspects of modern life, not just those of a scientific or technological order. In the end, readers are compelled to formulate their own opinions and make their own decisions regarding the way a technique-based value system affects every level of human life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jacques Ellul (1912-94) was a French law professor, social theorist, and lay theologian, teaching at the University of Bordeaux, France. Among his 58 published books, his best-known works include The Technological Society, Propaganda, The Humiliation of the Word, and Hope in Time of Abandonment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf and Stock
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1532615256
• ISBN 13: 9781532615252
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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