Technological Society (häftad)
Format
Mass market paperback
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
512
Utgivningsdatum
1967-10-12
Förlag
Random House USA Inc
Dimensioner
180 x 110 x 38 mm
Vikt
250 g
ISBN
9780394703909

Technological Society

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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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  1. Extremt viktig bok om teknikutveckling
    Pascal , 6 maj 2019

    I en tid när de flesta obetänkt bejakar teknikens inflöde i vardagen så utmanar Jacques Ellul oss på teknikens deterministiska väsen och kraft. Detta är en provocerande bok som erbjuder oss tuggmotstånd av bästa sort. En högst läsvärd klassiker!

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    Lars Ekman, 18 september 2002

    The Technological Society handlar egentligen inte om teknologi ("technology") utan snarare teknik ("technique"), med vilket Ellul syftar på alla rationella metoder som strävar mot absolut effektivitet för ett specifikt ändamål. Exempel på teknik hos Ellul är alltså inte bara maskiner utan även ekonomisk planering och reklam (vilket Ellul ser som en syntes av psykologisk teknik och massmedial teknik).

    Ellul menar att det moderna samhällets fullständigt impregnerats av det tekniska tän... Läs hela recensionen

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