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Technique, Discourse, and Consciousness : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jacques Ellul
author
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Lovekin, David.
publisher
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Lehigh University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0934223017
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9780934223010
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9780585188805
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English
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Ellul, Jacques.
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1991
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BX4827.E5L68 1990eb
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194
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Ellul, Jacques.
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Technique, Discourse, and Consciousness
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jacques Ellul
David Lovekin
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press London and Toronto: Associated University Presses
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lovekin, David. Technique, discourse, and consciousness: an introduction to the philosophy of Jacques Ellul/David Lovekin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-934223-01-7 (alk. paper) 1. Ellul, Jacques. I. Title. BX4827.E5L68 1991 194dc20 89-85467 CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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To Donald Phillip Verene
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Contents
Preface
9
Introduction
15
1. Ellul and the Critics
29
2. Ellul and the Problem of a Philosophy of Technology
65
3. Ellul and the Consciousness of Technique
82
4. Historical, Social, and Intellectual Dimensions of Ellul's Thought
117
5. The Technological Phenomenon and the Technical System
152
6. The Word and the Image: The Discourse of Technique
188
Notes
221
Bibliography
236
Index
249
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Preface
My interest in Jacques Ellul began in a hallway at Northern Illinois University in the spring of 1969. While teaching philosophy at Sauk Valley College in Dixon, Illinois, I was also auditing a Hegel seminar at Northern Illinois University that was being given by Donald Phillip Verene, with whom I had done a master's thesis seven years earlier, "Ernst Cassirer's Concept of Man." At the end of one seminar session, Verene asked me if I knew of Jacques Ellul's La Technique ou l'enjeu du sicle (1954) The Technological Society (1965), mentioning that the translator, John Wilkinson, had claimed that Ellul's work could be compared with Hegel's Phnomenologie des Geistes. Wilkinson believed that in this work Ellul had produced a "phenomenology of the technical state of mind."1 The following week I bought a copy of The Technological Society and began a twenty-one year study of Ellul and of the problems related to a philosophical consideration of technological society.
The background for my reading of Ellul was Cassirer, Hegel, and Verene's voice, still remembered from that Northern Illinois University hallway. From Cassirer I learned to view culture as a structure of symbolic formsmyth, religion, language, art, history, and science. From Hegel, I understood epistemology as a dialectic of consciousness and object. And from Verene, I learned to consider Hegel and Cassirer jointlyto see culture as a dialectical process of symbol formations and transformations.
At a time when most critics and commentators were explicating the more obvious neo-Kantian features of Cassirer's thought, Verene insisted on the Hegelian dimension to Cassirer's system. Cassirer's Kantian readers were more interested in the categories in Cassirer's work; Verene was interested in the dialectic between the categories, in seeing Cassirer's system as open-ended and as revealing the epistemological presuppositions of a cultural-social scheme.2 A culture reveals what it believes to be true in its practices. A culture's metaphysics is lived; it does not reside outside of space and time. This is a perspective well worked out by R. G. Collingwood in An Essay on Metaphysics (1939).3 Every action, Collingwood claimed, could be shown to reveal a metaphysical depth, an "absolute
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presupposition," a notion that has greatly influenced my reading of Ellul. On this reading, Ellul's notion of technique is to be understood as the absolute presupposition of our time.
I came to Ellul's analysis hoping partially to fulfill Cassirer's claim in the second volume of the
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