{"product_id":"technique-discourse-and-consciousness-paperback-1","title":"Technique, Discourse, and Consciousness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Lovekin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study examines the French thinker Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) and his historical, biblical, and social analyses of how technology manipulates and impoverishes modern thought, culture, and language. In the spirit of Georg Hegel and Ernst Cassirer, Ellul explores how technology begins in myths, stories, and religion, advances to tools, and then develops into data, algorithms, and abstract systems which are detached from human bodies and communities. Efficiency then becomes an absolute in all areas of human life, and the mentality of technique becomes lost in its creations. These modern symbols, posing as ultimate human goods and values, are denigrated by technique, leaving humanity awash in cliches, in groundless social media, and in blathering slogans that sustain the illusion that politics and culture have now become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lovekin is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Hastings College, Nebraska. He is co-translator of Jacques Ellul's \u003ci\u003eThe Empire of Non-Sense: Art in the Technological Society, \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePolitical Illusion and Reality: Engaging the Prophetic Insights of Jacques Ellul.\u003c\/i\u003e He has published numerous essays that deal with technology as a problem for a philosophy of culture and its symbolic forms. He is a contributing editor of the \u003ci\u003eEllul Forum \u003c\/i\u003eand a member of the International Jacques Ellul Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42653192454240,"sku":"9781666744149","price":48.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/RUZCUy9IUlpsVUtCWDlHSFJYODlJdz09.webp?v=1773964249","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/technique-discourse-and-consciousness-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}