Jacques Ellul
20th Century, France
Time and Place
Western Christianity, Protestantism
Christian Tradition
Theologian, Sociologist, Philosopher, Essayist
Noted Characteristics
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The search for ethics in a technicist society
What is called Technique can be assimilated neither to the machine nor to a collection of machines, methods and products. No longer a secondary factor integrated into a nontechnical society and civilisation, Technique has become the dominant factor in the Western world, so that the best name for our society is the “technicist society”.