The Technological Society, Band 10Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1964 - 449 Seiten 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 Press |
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... reality , which is independent of the individual . As I see it , individual decisions are always made within the frame- work of this sociological reality , itself pre - existent and more or less determinative . I have simply endeavored ...
... reality , which is independent of the individual . As I see it , individual decisions are always made within the frame- work of this sociological reality , itself pre - existent and more or less determinative . I have simply endeavored ...
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... reality in itself . It is no longer merely a means and an intermediary . It is an object in itself , an independent reality with which we must reckon . However , this often admitted difference does not seem to me to characterize ...
... reality in itself . It is no longer merely a means and an intermediary . It is an object in itself , an independent reality with which we must reckon . However , this often admitted difference does not seem to me to characterize ...
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... reality and the abstract man . Technique , moreover , creates a bond between men . All those who follow the same technique are bound together in a tacit fraternity and all of them take the same attitude toward reality . There is no need ...
... reality and the abstract man . Technique , moreover , creates a bond between men . All those who follow the same technique are bound together in a tacit fraternity and all of them take the same attitude toward reality . There is no need ...
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT | 23 |
The Sixteenth Century | 38 |
TECHNIQUE IN CIVILIZATION | 64 |
Urheberrecht | |
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