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Technological Society by Jacques Ellul (1967, Mass Market)
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A penetrating analysis of our technical civilization and of the effect of an increasingly standardized culture on the future of man.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394703901
ISBN-139780394703909
eBay Product ID (ePID)170407
Product Key Features
Book TitleTechnological Society
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1967
TopicSocial Aspects, Sociology / General, History & Theory
GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
AuthorJacques Ellul
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.1 in
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Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Jacques EIlul is a French sociologist, a Catholic layman active in the ecumenical movement, a leader of the French resistance in the war, and -- one is tempted to add, after reading his book -a great man. Certainly he has written a magnificent book. ... The translation by John Wilkinson is excellent. "With monumental calm and maddening thoroughness he goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized -- rendered efficient -- and diminished in the process.... " -- Paul Pickrel, Harper's "The Technological Society is 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 the necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs." -- Robert Theobald, The Nation "...The effect is a contained intellectual explosion, a heated recognition of a tragic complication that has overtaken contemporary society." -- Scott Buchanan, George Washington Law Review
Dewey Decimal303.483
SynopsisAs 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
LC Classification NumberT14.E553 2006
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Compelling thoughts on regarding technology and it's effects people and society
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