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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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Jern̤imo, Helena M. (Editor), Garcia, Jos ̌Lus̕. (Editor), Mitcham, Carl. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 13
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Philosophy.
Technology > Philosophy.
Philosophy of Technology.
Media Research.
Philosophy of Religion.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6658-7
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ellul returns; Helena Mateus Jern̤imo, Jos ̌Lus̕ 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<U+0019>s Efficiency Principle; Wha-Chul Son
  • Chapter 4. Technological Acceleration and the <U+001c>Ground Floor of Civilization ; Daniel Cřžuelle
  • Chapter 5. Technological System and the Problem of Desymbolization; Yuk Hui
  • Chapter 6. Against Environmental Protection? Ecological Modernization as <U+001c>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; Jos ̌Lus̕ Garcia and Helena Mateus Jern̤imo
  • 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<U+0019>s Thought in French Protestantism; Frďřic 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.

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