On Dwarves and Scientists: Probing for Technological Ethics in the Creative Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien
The presence of technology in contemporary life has become so pervasive that sociologist, Jacques Ellul has described this age as a "technological society". J.R.R. Tolkien lived in the midst of the ascension of this technological society at the turn of the twentieth-century, and though he...
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University of Edinburgh
2009-06-01
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Series: | Forum |
Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/618 |