Ellul, Jacques

The technological system / Jacques Ellul - New York : Continuum, 1980 - vi, 362 p. ; 24 cm.

Part one : What is technology -- Technology as a concept -- Technology as an environment -- Technology as a determining factor -- Technology as a system -- Part two : The charactersitics of the technological phenomenon -- Autonomy -- Unity -- Universality -- Totalization -- Part three : The characteristics of technological progress -- Self-augmentation -- Automatism -- Causal progression and absence of finality -- The problem of acceleration -- Conclusion : Man in the technological system.

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Technology and civilization.Technologie Aspect social.Technologie et civilisation.

HM221 / .E4313 1980