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The Word: Jacques Ellul's Dialogic Response To La Technique, Jeffrey S. Bogaczyk
The Word: Jacques Ellul's Dialogic Response To La Technique, Jeffrey S. Bogaczyk
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The focus of this interpretive work is primarily to bring two Ellulian metaphors into conversation with one another: la technique, and “the word.” Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), a prominent French philosopher, sociologist, and theologian, is predominantly known for his critique of what he calls la technique, an underlying system which acts as an all-encompassing feature of necessity, which privileges the values of efficiency, speed, and progress in all societal endeavors, and which serves as the predominant interpretive lens by which we can examine and understand our current historical and cultural moment. Technique had its origination in the value system of …