For For readers interested in Ellul's sociology of the bourgeoisie and modern society; not for a reader wanting theology. No English translation.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A sociological essay on how bourgeois values survived by being absorbed into technological society.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological5 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A sociological essay published by Calmann-Lévy in 1967 (reissued by La Table Ronde). Ellul examines the bourgeois as a social type and argues that bourgeois values and ways of living, far from disappearing, were absorbed and transformed by modern technological society. The book belongs to the cluster of sociological essays of the 1960s that followed La Technique. It has not been translated into English.
