J. Ellul’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)

The Power of Technique and the Ethics of Non-Power
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January 1980

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J. Ellul

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... Cera's proposal is a renewed ethical dialogue between "releasement" (Gelassenheit) and "responsibility", that is between Hans Jonas and Martin Heidegger (Jonas, 1984;Heidegger, 1977Heidegger, [1953). To do so, Cera looks to Jacques Ellul's ethic of non-power (Ellul, 1980). In contrast to ecomodern ethics, Gabor's law (Gabor, 1972), which states "anything that can be done, must be done", releasement takes inspiration from Bartleby's Law (from the protagonist of Herman Melville's famous Story of Wall Street). ...

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Cera, Agostino (2023), A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene. Discovering Terra Incognita
The Power of Technique and the Ethics of Non-Power
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  • January 1980

J. Ellul