Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century

This volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was amo

  • PDF / 2,293,643 Bytes
  • 249 Pages / 439.42 x 683.15 pts Page_size
  • 46 Downloads / 265 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


Helena M. Jerónimo José Luís Garcia Carl Mitcham Editors

Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century

Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century

Philosophy of Engineering and Technology VOLUME 13

Editorial Board Editor-in-chief Pieter E. Vermaas, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands General and overarching topics, design and analytic approaches Editors Christelle Didier, Lille Catholic University, France Engineering ethics and science and technology studies Craig Hanks, Texas State University, U.S.A. Continental approaches, pragmtism, environmental philosophy, biotechnology Byron Newberry, Baylor University, U.S.A. Philosophy of engineering, engineering ethics and engineering education Ibo van de Poel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ethics of technology and engineering ethics Editorial advisory board Philip Brey, Twente University, the Netherlands Louis Bucciarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Paul Durbin, University of Delaware, U.S.A. Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire & University of Oxford, U.K. Jun Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Vincent F. Hendricks, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Columbia University, U.S.A. Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Billy V. Koen, University of Texas, U.S.A. Peter Kroes, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Sylvain Lavelle, ICAM-Polytechnicum, France Michael Lynch, Cornell University, U.S.A. Anthonie Meijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Sir Duncan Michael, Ove Arup Foundation, U.K. Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A. Helen Nissenbaum, New York University, U.S.A. Alfred Nordmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Joseph Pitt, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University, U.S.A. Jon A. Schmidt, Burns & McDonnell, U.S.A. Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Australia

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/8657

Helena M. Jerónimo • José Luís Garcia Carl Mitcham Editors

Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century

Editors Helena M. Jerónimo School of Economics and Management Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG-UTL) & SOCIUS Lisbon, Portugal

José Luís Garcia Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal

Carl Mitcham Liberal Arts and International Studies Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO, USA

ISSN 1879-7202 ISSN 1879-7210 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-6657-0 ISBN 978-94-007-6658-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6658-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013939971 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or