Jacques Ellul on Religion, Technology, and Politics: Conversations with Patrick Troude-Chastenet

Ellul, Jacques; Patrick Troude-Chastenet

ISBN 10: 078850519X / ISBN 13: 9780788505195

Published by Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA, 1999

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168 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jacques Ellul on Religion, Technology, and Politics: Conversations with Patrick Troude-Chastenet
• Publisher: Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 078850519X
• ISBN 13: 9780788505195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good to Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Published Without Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), historian, theologian and social philosopher, was among the very first to look upon Technique as the key to our modernity. Because of the gloomy picture he paints of a society delivering humanity up to the manipulations of propaganda, state oppression and political illusion, this prophetic thinker has often been accused of describing today's world as little more than a wasteland. Yet hope and liberty are at the very heart of all his thinking. This book tells the story of Ellul, the anarchistic Christian, through a series of conversations where, for the first and last time in his life, he bares his heart to reveal to us what is tantamount to an intellectual legacy. It also gives us an overview of an immense lifework as yet insufficiently known.

About the Author

Patrick Troude-Chastenet is a senior lecturer in Political Science at the Institut dŽEtudes Politiques in the University of Bordeaux in France. He has already published three books on Jacques Ellul as well as numerous articles in European journals. He is a member of the editorial board of The Ellul Forum.