Introduction

Ellul returns

Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José L. García, Carl Mitcham

1-14

How the technological society became more important in the united states than in France

Carl Mitcham

17-34

The technological society

social theory, McDonaldization and the prosumer

George Ritzer

35-47

Are we still pursuing efficiency?

interpreting Jacques Ellul's efficiency principle

Wha-Chul Son

49-62

Technological acceleration and the "ground floor of civilization"

Daniel Cérézuelle

63-72

Technological system and the problem of desymbolization

Yuk Hui

73-82

Against environmental protection?

ecological modernization as "technician ecology"

Isabelle Lamaud

83-96

Propaganda and dissociation from truth

Langdon Winner

99-113

An unseasonable thinker

how Ellul engages cybercultural criticism

Andoni Alonso

115-128

Fukushima

a tsunami of technological order

José L. García, Helena Mateus Jerónimo

129-144

From "the contaminated blood affair" to the mediator scandal

public health, political responsibility, and democracy

Patrick Troude-Chastenet

145-158

Homo energeticus

technological rationality in the Alberta tar sands

Nathan Kowalsky, Randolph Haluza-DeLay

159-175

The reception of Jacques Ellul's thought in French protestantism

Frédéric Rognon

179-189

Radically religious

ecumenical roots of the critique of technological society

Jennifer Karns Alexander

191-203

Truth, reality and the ten commandments

not for theology alone

Virginia W. Landgraf

205-218

Social intolerability of the Christian revelation

a comparative perspective on the works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger

Andrei Ivan

219-228

Postmodernity, the phenomenal mistake

sacred, myth and environment

Gregory Wagenfuhr

229-241