A Critique of the New Commonplaces

by Jacques Ellul

Book Overview

Jacques Ellul--much less solemn in mood than usual--here cracks open political and sociological commonplaces, destructively and wittily demonstrating how our unthinking acceptance of them encourages hypocrisy, smugness, and mental inertia. Among the stereotypes of thought and speech thus exploded are such phrases as ""You can't act without getting your hands dirty,"" ""Work is freedom,"" ""We must follow the current of history,"" and ""Women find...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606089757
• ISBN13: 9781606089750
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"