Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition

by Jeffrey M Shaw and Jeffrey M. Shaw

Book Overview

Illusions 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625640587
• ISBN13: 9781625640581
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"