Author: Lee HoinackiPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791454213
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.
The Challenges of Ivan Illich
Author: Lee HoinackiPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488292
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
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 Illich's previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.
The Challenges of Ivan Illich
Author: Lee HoinackiPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791454213
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.
Ivan Illich in Conversation
Author: David CayleyPublisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887848613
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
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
Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN: 9780714531588
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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"--
Tools for Conviviality
Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN: 9780714509747
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Limits to Medicine
Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: Marion Boyars
ISBN: 9780714529936
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.
In the Mirror of the Past
Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN: 9780714531595
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
During the 1980s, Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In this volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions tht characterize our world today were laid in the twelfth century. Topics center on health, housing, school, language and literacy, peace and ethics.
The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: London : M. Boyars ; Don Mills, Ont. : Burns & MacEachern
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Monograph on a philosophy for restoring quality of life to modern society - contends that autonomous activities, in which both rich and poor people might find a sense of creativity and freedom, have been thwarted by professionalism, technocracy, and the pursuit of productivity.
The Prophet of Cuernavaca
Author: Todd HartchPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190204567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
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.
Tools for Conviviality
Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN: 9781842300114
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
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.