Juriste, historien, théologien et sociologue, Jacques Ellul est le premier à avoir compris que le phénomène technicien est la clé de notre modernité. Penser globalement, agir localement : toute sa vie, Ellul aura été fidèle à cette maxime. Indifférent aux modes, cet esprit libre n’a pas hésité à penser à contre-courant pour conserver son intégrité.
Ce livre raconte l’itinéraire singulier du penseur à travers une série d’entretiens réalisés entre 1981 et 1994. Il offre un panorama complet des thèses d’Ellul à des lecteurs curieux mais ne sachant comment entrer dans son œuvre colossale.
Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the intersection between Christianity and politics, such as Anarchy and Christianity (1991)--arguing that anarchism and Christianity are socially following the same goal.
A philosopher who approached technology from a deterministic viewpoint, Ellul, professor at the University of Bordeaux, authored 58 books and more than a thousand articles over his lifetime, the dominant theme of which has been the threat to human freedom and Christian faith created by modern technology. His constant concern has been the emergence of a "technological tyranny" over humanity. As a philosopher and lay theologian, he further explored the religiosity of the technological society.
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