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Jacob Marques Rollison. A New Reading of Jacques Ellul
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations. Texts by Jacques Ellul
Secondary texts on Ellul
Works by Søren Kierkegaard
Other Works
Introduction
Theologically Questioning an. Intellectual Inheritance
One-Sided Dialogue?
What Does Bordeaux Have to Do with Paris?
Ellul—A “Religious Postmodernist”?
A Different Ellul?
Ellul in Crisis
Presence as a Hermeneutical Key
Summary of Argument
Notes
Architecture
Reason for Being
Why Reason for Being?
Ellul: “Kierkegaard in the Twentieth Century”
Ellul’s Kierkegaardian Qohelet
Vanity, the Limit of the Present
Kierkegaard and Contemporaneity
The Present, I: Temporally Restricted Epistemology
The Present, II: Becoming Individual, or the Existential Ethics of Freedom in the Present
The Present, III: The Present Presence of Jesus Christ
From Kierkegaard’s Contemporaneity to. Ellul’s Presence
Questioning Kierkegaard: Socratic Rhetoric, Platonic Time?
Ellul’s Qoheletian Kierkegaard: Creaturely Time
Reframing Indirect Communication
Ellul’s “More-than-modern” Qohelet
Wisdom and Folly
God’s Time
Conclusion
Notes
Community in the Present
Ellul’s Marx on History, Language, and the Human. General Lines of Inheritance
Alienated Time
Disintegrating Language
Marx’s Contradictory Human
From Marx’s Anti-Humanism to Ellul’s Personalism. Situating Ellul’s Personalism
Ellul’s Personalist Person
True and False Community: Institutions. vs. Propaganda
Institution as The Societal Present, III
The Origins of Ellul’s Propaganda
The Second World War, Law, and Natural Communities
Propaganda and the Crisis of Language
Conclusion
Notes
Movement
The Dialogue of Sign and Presence
The Dialogue of Sign and Presence: The Foundation of Ellul’s Theological Ethics. Ellul’s Unpublished Article, “The Dialogue of Sign and Presence (Notes for a Christianity Learned by Heart)”
Textual Comments
The Triple Dialogue
Presence in the Modern World: Ethics of Signification
Being a Sign: An Ethic of Signification
Time Enslaved: An Ethic of Temporal Redemption
Technique, the Slavery of the Present: An Ethic of Incarnate Being
Living Signs: An Ethic of Communication
False Presence in the Modern World: Presence Misunderstood
Situating the Critique
The Church in Relation to Her Time
The Wholly Other as an External Relation
To Will and To Do: Further Development and Foundations
Faire: An Impossible and Necessary Ethic in the Present
Part I: The Presence of God, the Good, and Morality
Part II: Moralities of the World
Part III: Impossible and Necessary Morality
Sources: A Prophetic, Biblical Ethic for the Present of History. Part IV: Conditions and Characteristic of a Formulated Christian Ethic
Part V: Law, Theology, and the Formulated Ethic
Presence in The Ethics of Freedom
Freedom in the Presence of God
Conclusion
Notes
Crises in Communication
A Time of Crisis: Ellul and His Nation in the 1960s. Changing Eras of French Intellectual Life
Ellul in Crisis
The Death of Jean Bosc
Work with Youth and Death of Yves Charrier
Failed Political Hopes: 1968 in Czechoslovakia and France
The Structuralist Wave
Terminology: Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Postmodernity
Historical Context
New Media Conditions
Themes and Lines of Inheritance
Critique of the Human
Critique of Historicism
Critique of Linguistic Meaning and Philosophy
Critique of Presence
Structuralism as French Nietzscheanism
Reading the Signs of the Times: Structuralism and Ellul’s Crisis
Ellul Reads Foucault
Ellul’s Sociological Critique of Structuralism
Fragility of Linguistic Politics in a World of Images
Ultimate Justification of the Bourgeois
The Ideology of Nothingness
Theological Reading and Crisis
Crisis of Theological Presence
Impossible Prayer
Conclusion
Notes
A Hopeful, Spoken Incognito
Apocalypse: (Biblical?) Historical Dialectics
Forgotten Hope: Recasting Presence for the Postmodern World
Sociological Symptoms, Theological Diagnosis
Return to Kierkegaard: Hope, the (Protestant) Human Response to God’s Silence
Incognito: Christian Communication Ethics for the Postmodern Era
Communal Hope in the Fragile Truth of the Humiliated Word
Speaking like (Viallaneix’s) Kierkegaard[129]
The Audiovisual Lie
The Word against Philosophy: Seeing and Hearing like Qohelet
Lust for This Age vs. Desire for God’s Presence
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1
Note
Appendix 2
Jacques Ellul’s Honorary Doctorate from Aberdeen
Ellul’s Letter to Professor James B. Torrance
Professor James B. Torrance’s Conferral Speech
Article by Jacques Ellul: “The Role of Memory and Hope in Faith”
Memory and Hope
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
