Jacques ELLUL and the renewal of metaphysical hope: a medoc against the alienation of man in the technical system

ABSTRACT: The ellulean approach of the technical system shows that automatism, self-increase, uniqueness,totalization, training / linking, universality and autonomy are the fundamental characteristics which give thissystem power and a productive performance whose teleology is to ensure the happiness of humanity. Thishappiness is understood exclusively in terms of well-being, of the technical comfort which bewitches man andultimately sacrifices his ontological and sacred freedom. The sacred is no longer the original and sovereign man,nor God who thus created it, but the technical system which quickly displayed a usurped sacredness anddivinity. The alienation that follows becomes, for man, a devastating disease whose extra-technical solution isfound, according to Jacques Ellul, in the revival of metaphysical hope, wrongly judged by technophiles assuperfetatory in the world. achievement of the happiness of mankind.

Keywords: Alienation, happiness, disalienation, metaphysical hope, freedom, technical system.