Sister Society: Association Internationale Jacques Ellul
On Saturday June 4, 2022 (10 AM Central Time) IJES will host a zoom-based presentation by Christian Roy:
Personalist Ethics in Bernard Charbonneau’s Media Critique
A Personalist ethos was always central to Bernard Charbonneau’s lifelong engagement with media issues, from his first article in Esprit (April 1935) presenting “La publicité” as fundamentally inimical to the person it conditions as a consumer-automaton, to his November 1991 articles in Vice Versa and Combat Nature on “information-publicité-
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Christian Roy (Ph.D. McGill 1993) is a Montreal-based cultural historian, art and film critic, and multilingual translator, e.g. of Bernard Charbonneau’s The Green Light. Bernard Charbonneau’s The Green Light. (Bloomsbury 2018) and Jacques Ellul’s Theology and Technique (Wipf & Stock, forthcoming). His research is mostly focused on the Personalist intellectual tradition, especially its pre-war roots in France.
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For receiving a zoom link for the presentation / discussion on Saturday June 4, 2022 (10 AM Central Time) contact ellulsociety@gmail.com or go directly to this promo page.