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1 online resource |
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Philosophy of engineering and technology, 1879-7202 ; v. 13 |
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Philosophy of engineering and technology ; v. 13.
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Introduction: Ellul returns / Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José Luís Garcia, Carl Mitcham -- Part I: Civilization of technique -- How the technological society became more important in the United States than in France / Carl Mitcham -- The technological society : Social theory, McDonaldization and the prosumer / George Ritzer -- Are we still pursuing efficiency? : interpreting Jacques Ellul's efficiency principle / Wha-Chul Son -- Technological acceleration and the "ground floor of civilization" / Daniel Cérézuelle -- Technological system and the problem of desymbolization / Yuk Hui -- Against environmental protection? : ecological modernization as "technician ecology" / Isabelle Lamaud |
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Part II: Autonomous technology -- Propaganda and dissociation from truth / Langdon Winner -- An unseasonable thinker : how Ellul engages cybercultural criticism / Andoni Alonso -- Fukushima : a tsunami of technological order / José Luís Garcia, Helena Mateus Jerónimo -- From "the contaminated blood affair" to the mediator scandal : public health, political responsibility, and democracy / Patrick Troude-Chastenet -- Homo Energeticus : technological rationality in the Alberta Tar Sands / Nathan Kowalsky, Randolph Haluza-DeLay |
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Part III: Reason and revelation -- The reception of Jacques Ellul's thought in French Protestantism / Frédéric Rognon -- Radically religious : ecumenical roots of the critique of technological society / Jennifer Karns Alexander -- Truth, reality and the Ten Commandments : not for theology alone / Virginia W. Landgraf -- Social intolerability of the Christian Revelation : a comparative perspective on the works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger / Andrei Ivan -- Postmodernity, the phenomenal mistake : sacred, myth and environment / Gregory Wagenfuhr |
| Summary |
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 importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul's diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological socie |
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Philosophy |
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Technology -- Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Technology |
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Media Research |
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Philosophy of Religion |
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massamedia |
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mass media |
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filosofie |
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technologie |
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technology |
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religie |
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religion |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Filosofie (algemeen) |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 22, 2013) |
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Technology -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy and civilization.
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Philosophy and religion.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- General.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Philosophy and civilization
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Philosophy and religion
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Technology -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jerónimo, Helena Mateus.
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Garcia, José Luís, 1955 October 2-
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Mitcham, Carl.
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| ISBN |
9789400766587 |
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9400766580 |
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9400766572 |
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9789400766570 |
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