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The Technological Society
- Author
- Jacques Ellul
- Narrator
- Arthur Morey
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 24 April 2021
- Run Time
- 21 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in France 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.
Critics Review
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“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
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“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.”
The Nation
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“The effect is a contained intellectual explosion, a heated recognition of a tragic complication that has overtaken contemporary society.”
George Washington Law Review
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“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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Details
- Author
- Jacques Ellul
- Narrator
- Arthur Morey
- Duration
- 21 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9781799931812
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Philosophy of science, Impact of science and technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society
Synopsis
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in France 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.
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