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100	1		_aShaw, Jeffrey M., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIllusions of freedom : _bThomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on technology and the human condition / _cJeffrey M. Shaw.
264		1	_aEugene, Oregon : _bPickwick Publications, _c[2014]
264		4	_c©2014
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 185-193).
520			_aIllusions 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.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
600	1	0	_aMerton, Thomas, _d1915-1968.
600	1	0	_aEllul, Jacques, _d1912-1994.
650		0	_aTechnology _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		7	_aRELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / Christianity / General _2bisacsh
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aShaw, Jeffrey M. _tIllusions of freedom _z1625640587 _w(DLC) 2014453505 _w(OCoLC)880965058
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