Are all governments—east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic—fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of “technique” and bureaucracy? Is all politics, then, just an illusory affair of lies, deception, propaganda, partisan passions, and chaos on the surface of government and party? In his vast and penetrating writings, Bordeaux sociologist Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) points in those directions.
Political Illusion and Reality is a collection of twenty-three essays on Ellul’s political thought. Veteran as well as younger Ellul scholars, political leaders, activists, and pastors, discuss aspects of Ellul’s thought as they relate to their own fields of study and political experience. Beginning with his 1936 essay “Fascism, Son of Liberalism,” translated and published here in English for the first time, Ellul and these authors will provoke readers to think some new thoughts about politics and government, and think more deeply about the main issues we face in our politically divided and troubled times.
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Oui et Non: Jacques Ellul's Dialectical Engagement with karl Marx
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The Political Theology of Jacques Ellul
David Gill
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Liberalism ant the State in French and Canadian Technocritical Discourses: Intersections and Contrasts betwenn George Grant and the Bordeaux School
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Resistance in Thought and Action: From the Global to the Local at Verdon
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Political Upheavals Old and New: The Radical Vision of Jacques Ellul
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Bringing Ellul to the City Council: Mayor Robb Davis Reflects on Ellul's Influence
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The Hashtag Comes First: Jacques Ellul and Occupy Wall Street
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The Illusion of Change: From Greece to Italy and Spain
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Democracy Confiscated?: The Continued Relevance of Jacques Ellul
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Sham Universe: Notes on the Disappearance of Reality in a World of Hallucinations
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Telling a Better Story: Jacques Ellul Against Statist Mythology and For a New World
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