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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Ellul"”.
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The Word: Jacques Ellul's Dialogic Response To La Technique
… this interpretive work is primarily to bring two Ellulian metaphors into conversation with one another: <em>la technique</em>, and “the word.” Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), a prominent French philosopher, sociologist, and theologian, is predominantly known for his critique of what he calls <em>la …
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Communication Ethics: Ellul's Complexity of Form
<p>This project aims to enlarge understanding of Ellul’s dilemma of the ethical Christian communicator through a hermeneutic exploration of his intentionally un-paradigmatic treatment of technology as the determining factor in the formation of contemporary structural realities, a claim central to …
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Video Games, Influence, and Identification: The Perpetuation of Culture Through Digital Worlds
… reach and impact of play on human users. Jacques Ellul’s philosophy of social propaganda and Kenneth Burke’s rhetorical theory each offer important implications to the persuasiveness of video games; however, when placed in conversation with one another, the union of Ellul and Burke leads to a more …
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
… work of John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jacques Ellul, and Sayyid Qutb, among others. I also focus my attention on Carlyle as a philosopher who is an intermediary between ancient Platonism and nineteenth-century American Transcendentalism. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is a Platonic text that …
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The Megaphone of the Soul: Resistance of Fraudulent Technological Idolization by Recognizing the Power of Human Choice in Media Ecology
… into media ecology scholarship by Arendt, Burke, Ellul, Mumford, Postman, and Ricoeur. Social media scholarship has often focused on the tool and how it affects humanity. However, a phenomenological approach is necessary, as humans communicate with or without these tools. This approach will follow …
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Evaluation of the anatomical accuracy of the neuronavigation system “StealthStation” in neurosurgical operations
… (Bale, Laimer et al. 2006, Georgiopoulos, Ellul et al. 2014) Moreover, in the case of brain biopsies they are combined with miniframe stereotactic devices. As a result, the various disadvantages of the stereotactic methods and apparatuses (e.g. Cosman-Roberts-Wells (CRW) or Leksell systems) …
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Set behaviour of epichlorohydrin elastomers
… by means of a mathematical model proposed by Ellul and Southern. It was found that there is a broad correlation between compression-set and stress-relaxation provided certain parameters in the model do not vary excessively.
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Advertising as Epideictic Rhetoric and Its Implications for Ethical Communication
In the ancient sense, epideictic rhetoric was considered as a simple opposition to pragmatic discourse, which predominantly was involved with public business. Public business refers to the matters of the polis and the political setting. On the other hand, epideictic does not address to the …