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Illusions of freedom

Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on technology and the human condition

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An edition of Illusions of freedom (2014)

Illusions of freedom

Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on technology and the human condition

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Illusions of Freedom examines the opinions and ideas of two twentieth-century writers --Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk living in the United States, and Jacques Ellul, a French Protestant. Contemporaries, they never met or corresponded with each other, but their critique of the influence that technology was beginning to have on the human condition is strikingly similar. Both Merton and Ellul drew upon the ideas of others in formulating their worldview, to include Karl Barth, Søren Kierkegaard, Aldous Huxley, and Karl Marx. Jeffrey Shaw examines the influence that these other philosophers had on Merton and Ellul as they formulated their own ideas on technology's impact on freedom. Tracing the similarities, and in some cases the differences, between their critiques of technology and the idea that progress is always to be seen as something inherently good, one finds that they bring a unique perspective to the debate and offer readers an alternative avenue for reflecting on the meaning of technology and its impact on our lives in the twenty-first century.

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Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition
2014, Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition
Dec 25, 2014, Lutterworth Press
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Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition
2014, Wipf & Stock Publishers
in English
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Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition
2014, Lutterworth Press, The
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Illusions of freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on technology and the human condition
2014, Pickwick Publications
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193).

Published in
Eugene, Oregon

Classifications

Library of Congress
BR115.T42 S53 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 193 pages
Number of pages
193

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31251430M
Internet Archive
illusionsoffreed0000shaw
ISBN 10
1625640587
ISBN 13
9781625640581
LCCN
2014453505
OCLC/WorldCat
880965058

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