The Challenges of Ivan Illich
The Challenges of Ivan Illich

Author: Lee Hoinacki

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0791488292

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This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays—all by people Illich has influenced personally—discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study, and practice of psychotherapy, notions about education, ideas concerning the historical development of the text, perceptions of technology, as well as other topics. All of Illich's books are discussed and his ideas on education, theology, technology, anarchism, and society are examined in relationship to those of René Girard, Karl Polanyi, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Ellul. Illich's previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.

Ivan Illich in Conversation
Ivan Illich in Conversation

Author: David Cayley

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 1992-06-09

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0887848613

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For more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to additional sessoins that continued until 1992 and are now gathered in Ivan Illich in Conversation. In these fascinating conversations, which range over a wide selection of the celebrated thinker's published work and public career, Illich's brilliant mind alights on topics of great contemporary interest, including education, history, language, politics, and the church.

Beyond Economics and Ecology: the Radical Thought of Ivan Illich
Beyond Economics and Ecology: the Radical Thought of Ivan Illich

Author: Ivan Illich

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714531588

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"Each of the four essays printed here was written for a specific occasion and together comprise only the smallest selection from a larger corpus questioning commodity and energy-intensive economies. The essays are presented thematically instead of chronologically to offer a better view of the sweep of Illich's argument. In the first two, "War against Subsistence" and "Shadow Work," Illich reveals both the ruins on which the economy is built and the blindness of economics which cannot but fail to see it. The second two essays, "Energy and Equity" and "The Social Construction of Energy," unearth the nineteenth century invention and subsequent consequences of 'energy' thought of as the unseen cause of all 'work' whether done by steam engines, humans, or trees. The science of ecology relies on this assumption and, as Illich explained, unwittingly fuels the addiction to energy. The close dance of energy consumption and economic growth is characteristic of not just industrially geared societies. After all, energy consumption steadily increases even in so-called post-industrial societies, fueling the fortunes of Google and Apple no less than Wal-Mart"--

In the Mirror of the Past
In the Mirror of the Past

Author: Ivan Illich

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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During the 1980s Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In the current volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions that characterize our world today was laid in the twelfth century.

The Challenges of Ivan Illich
The Challenges of Ivan Illich

Author: Lee Hoinacki

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2002-07-18

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780791454213

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Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.

Tools for Conviviality
Tools for Conviviality

Author: Ivan Illich

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781842300114

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Ivan Illich argues for individual personal control over life, the tools and energy we use. A work of seminal importance. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. A work of seminal importance, this book claims our attention for the urgency of its appeal, the stunning clarity of its logic and the overwhelmingly human note that it sounds.

The Prophet of Cuernavaca
The Prophet of Cuernavaca

Author: Todd Hartch

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0190204567

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This book offers the first biography of Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich, who skewered the institutions of the West in the 1970s.

Limits to Medicine
Limits to Medicine

Author: Ivan Illich

Publisher: Marion Boyars

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780714529936

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The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.

Challenging the Professionalization of Adult Education
Challenging the Professionalization of Adult Education

Author: André P. Grace

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0787978272

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This is groundbreaking book examines the influence of the radical educator and social critic John Ohliger and provides a challenge to orthodox approaches to adult education. Ohliger's call to focus on the necessity of learning to democracy, and his critique of those that fail to keep freedom and responsibility at the center of the learning enterprise, provide rich material for the authors? reflections on the many ways in which Ohliger's work has influenced contemporary practice in the field. The book also includes his most influential works also allows the reader to engage with his ideas directly.