The empire of non-sense by Jacques Ellul
Translated into English for the first time, Jacques Ellul's ground-breaking Empire of Non-Sense analyses the relation between technology, art, rationality and human freedom. Many modern artists and architects continue to imagine and build the world technologically. Their beliefs remain firmly rooted in their assumption that the liberating forces of technology freed them from previous artistic traditions while making available vast means of production and a plethora of materials. Ellul examines this process in modern art from the beginning of the 20th century where the sense of art - its meaning and embodiments - is reduced to non-sense.
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was a French sociologist, historian of legal institutions, lay minister, philosopher and educator. In his long scholarly career, Ellul wrote forty books and eight hundred essays. Samir Younes is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, U.S.A. His latest book is The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment, published in 2013. David Lovekin is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Hastings College, U.S.A. He is the author of Technique, Discourse, and Consciousness: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jacques Ellul.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906506407 |
| ISBN 10 | 190650640X |
| Title | The empire of non-sense |
| Author | Jacques Ellul |
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| Publisher | Papadakis |
| Year published | 2014-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
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