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ISBN
0394703901
EAN
9780394703909
Date of Publication
19671012
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
The Technological Society (A Vintage book: V-390)
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Ellul, Jacques
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394703901
ISBN-13
9780394703909
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170407

Product Key Features

Book Title
Technological Society
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, Sociology / General, History & Theory
Publication Year
1967
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Author
Jacques Ellul
Format
Mass Market

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Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
6.8 in
Item Width
4.1 in

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Dewey Edition
22
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
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Dewey Decimal
303.483
Synopsis
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
LC Classification Number
T14.E553 2006

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