very sideways--if at all---related to Thomas Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

I have only read some of the two major books and long ago.....

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 11:01 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a 20th French intellectual who wrote some highly acclaimed books
> on subjects we know Thomas read about by others. His name was Jacques
> Ellul.
> The most famous book is THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. ...(no clue TRP ever
> read him, of course) but.........a couple connections.....He was a
> Christian and one
> of his last books, put together from some of his writings by others and
> after his death was called
> The Humiliation of the Word Paperback – October 14, 2021
> by  Jacques Ellul
> <https://www.amazon.com/Jacques-Ellul/e/B001ILM8UU/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1>
>   (Author), Joyce Main Hanks
> <https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Joyce+Main+Hanks&text=Joyce+Main+Hanks&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books>
>   (Translator), Ted Lewis
> <https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_3?ie=UTF8&field-author=Ted+Lewis&text=Ted+Lewis&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books>
>   (Contributor), & 1 more
> <https://www.amazon.com/Humiliation-Word-Jacques-Ellul/dp/1532642563/ref=pd_scr_dp_alt1_d_d_sccl_3_2/141-4957400-1644107?pd_rd_w=1gdZF&content-id=amzn1.sym.2518befe-f203-4b06-b73c-15190b673369&pf_rd_p=2518befe-f203-4b06-b73c-15190b673369&pf_rd_r=3Z2RXB3SYA7XPJKNDX2D&pd_rd_wg=I4WnD&pd_rd_r=fccc4fa9-d29c-40ef-b7c1-74df2ad4a5cd&pd_rd_i=1532642563&psc=1#>
>
> A major theme of this book---*Propaganda* is his second most famous
> title---could be summed up by
> this P-lister as Pynchon's showing how modern media, American society,
> does humiliate the Word,
> which maybe isn't The Word any longer, so to speak.....
>
> and he also wrote a book called *Anarchism and Christianity* in which
> anarchism---that strain of still-to-be determined
> meaning in TRP's work-- is (simply) defined as non-violent resistance to
> authority and which Jacques finds to be very strong in
> The Bible.....
>