# Jacques Ellul

- Id: `jacques_ellul`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/jacques-ellul/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `a27af9f4f84b5e8cf9de28fcda8ee2bcc60116b3af23a16648f9b22eefb0731e`

## Summary

A sociologist, jurist and Protestant thinker, Jacques Ellul studies technique as a self-reinforcing social system rather than a collection of neutral tools. He asks how propaganda, efficiency and political illusion narrow freedom, and where responsibility can still take hold.

## Overview

Jacques Ellul died in Pessac on 19 May 1994.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1912-1994",
    "era": "Contemporary era",
    "distance": "32–114 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 82
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Sociology of technique, ethics and Christian thought",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Sociology of technique, ethics and Christian thought"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1994,
    "display": "1994 CE",
    "reason": "Jacques Ellul died in Pessac on 19 May 1994."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 693,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Bordeaux",
        "period": "1912",
        "description": "Birthplace and university setting.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://ellul.org/life/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Martres",
        "period": "1940-1944",
        "description": "Farming, teaching and Resistance activity during the occupation.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://ellul.org/life/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Pessac",
        "period": "later life-1994",
        "description": "Home, filmed-interview setting and place of death.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://ellul.org/life/"
    }
]
```