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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... tech- nique . But what we are talking about is a world once given over to the pragmatic approach and now being taken over by method . We can say , therefore , that Mauss's definition , which was valid for technique until the eighteenth ...
... tech- nique . But what we are talking about is a world once given over to the pragmatic approach and now being taken over by method . We can say , therefore , that Mauss's definition , which was valid for technique until the eighteenth ...
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... tech- nical evolution also , it seems that limits no longer exist . Improve- ments that result from the application of technique to the matter at hand ( whether it be physical or social ) can be added uninter- ruptedly ; there is no ...
... tech- nical evolution also , it seems that limits no longer exist . Improve- ments that result from the application of technique to the matter at hand ( whether it be physical or social ) can be added uninter- ruptedly ; there is no ...
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... tech- nique twice resorted to actions which were publicly popular but which were at the same time completely contrary to Nazi doctrine . One such instance was the great propaganda drive of 1935 , at the time of the " confirmation ...
... tech- nique twice resorted to actions which were publicly popular but which were at the same time completely contrary to Nazi doctrine . One such instance was the great propaganda drive of 1935 , at the time of the " confirmation ...
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT | 23 |
TECHNIQUE IN CIVILIZATION | 64 |
CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN TECHNIQUE | 79 |
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