"This is Oil Country": The Tar Sands and Jacques Ellul's Theory of Technology
The Alberta tar sands, and the proposed pipelines which would carry their bitumen to international markets, comprise one of the most visible environmental controversies of the early twenty-first century. Jacques Ellul's theory of technology presents ostensibly physical phenomena, such as the ta...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas
[2015]
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Environmental ethics
Année: 2015, Volume: 37, Numéro: 1, Pages: 75-97 |
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| Résumé: | The Alberta tar sands, and the proposed pipelines which would carry their bitumen to international markets, comprise one of the most visible environmental controversies of the early twenty-first century. Jacques Ellul's theory of technology presents ostensibly physical phenomena, such as the tar sands, as social phenomena wherein all values are subsumed under the efficient mastery of nature. The effect of technological rationality is totalizing because technical means establish themselves as the exclusive facts of the matter, which creates a socio-political environment wherein ethical engagement is precluded. Analyzing the tar sands controversy through Ellul's hermeneutic challenges environmental ethics to a more radical stance than the continuation of the technological worldview, and thus offers meaningful and hopeful alternatives to the status quo. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7895 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Environmental ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics20153716 |