The Challenges Of Ivan Illich

Author : Lee Hoinacki,Carl Mitcham
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791488294

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The Challenges of Ivan Illich by Lee Hoinacki,Carl Mitcham Pdf

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 Illich's previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.

Author : David Cayley
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780887848612

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Ivan Illich in Conversation by David Cayley Pdf

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.

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0714531588

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

"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"--

Author : David Cayley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271089140

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Ivan Illich by David Cayley Pdf

In the eighteen years since Ivan Illich’s death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teacher’s life and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents Illich’s body of thought, locating it in its own time and retrieving its relevance for ours. Ivan Illich (1926–2002) was a revolutionary figure in the Roman Catholic Church and in the wider field of cultural criticism that began to take shape in the 1960s. His advocacy of a new, de-clericalized church and his opposition to American missionary programs in Latin America, which he saw as reactionary and imperialist, brought him into conflict with the Vatican and led him to withdraw from direct service to the church in 1969. His institutional critiques of the 1970s, from Deschooling Society to Medical Nemesis, promoted what he called institutional or cultural revolution. The last twenty years of his life were occupied with developing his theory of modernity as an extension of church history. Ranging over every phase of Illich’s career and meditating on each of his books, Cayley finds Illich to be as relevant today as ever and more likely to be understood, now that the many convergent crises he foresaw are in full public view and the church that rejected him is paralyzed in its “folkloric” shell. Not a conventional biography, though attentive to how Illich lived, Cayley’s book is “continuing a conversation” with Illich that will engage anyone who is interested in theology, philosophy, history, and the Catholic Church.

Author : Samuel E. Ewell III
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532614620

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Faith Seeking Conviviality by Samuel E. Ewell III Pdf

Faith Seeking Conviviality traces the journey of a U.S. missionary into Brazil (and beyond), seeking to be faithfully present while also questioning the default settings of "good intentions." Taking Ivan Illich as the primary theological guide on that journey, Faith Seeking Conviviality narrates the discovery of a renewed imagination for Christian mission that arises as a response to two persistent questions. First, given the colonial history of Christian missionary expansion, on what basis do we go on fulfilling the "Great Commission" (Matt 28:16-20) as Christ's disciples? A second question, intimately related to the first, is: What makes it possible to embody a distinctively Christian presence that is missionary without being manipulative? In doing theology with and after Ivan Illich, Faith Seeking Conviviality does not offer a pull-off-the-shelf model for mission, but rather a framework for embodying the incarnational logic of mission that entails a "convivial turn"--delinking missionary discipleship from the lure of techniques and institutional dependence in order to receive and to share the peace of Christ relationally.

Author : Rosa Bruno-Jofré,Michael Attridge,Jon Igelmo Zaldívar
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487550523

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Rethinking Freire and Illich by Rosa Bruno-Jofré,Michael Attridge,Jon Igelmo Zaldívar Pdf

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both Freire and Illich led in different ways to a new approach to perceiving and understanding the concept of liberation as a human condition, while also presenting current criticisms of their work from a gendered perspective and by Indigenous scholars in the US and Canada. Drawing on contributions from historians of education, theologians, digital experts, and philosophers of education, the book offers a historical analysis using extensive primary sources and an originality of topics. It introduces the ways in which the current generation reads the overall works of Freire and Illich in the search for a reconstructed democratic education. As a result, Rethinking Freire and Illich presents Freire and Illich in light of contemporary issues in this generation, and offers renewed searches for a good and just life and a reconstructed democratic education.

Author : Matthias Finger,José Manuel Asún
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 1856497518

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Adult Education at the Crossroads by Matthias Finger,José Manuel Asún Pdf

Adopting a social action perspective, this book is an assessment of where adult education now stands in the world. It argues that the purposes and rationale of adult education need to be reconceptualised for it to become an effective agent of change.

Author : Evgeny Morozov
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781610391399

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To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency? What if some such problems are simply vices in disguise? What if some friction in communication is productive and some hypocrisy in politics necessary? The temptation of the digital age is to fix everything -- from crime to corruption to pollution to obesity -- by digitally quantifying, tracking, or gamifying behavior. But when we change the motivations for our moral, ethical, and civic behavior we may also change the very nature of that behavior. Technology, Evgeny Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement -- but only if we keep solutionism in check and learn to appreciate the imperfections of liberal democracy. Some of those imperfections are not accidental but by design. Arguing that we badly need a new, post-Internet way to debate the moral consequences of digital technologies, To Save Everything, Click Here warns against a world of seamless efficiency, where everyone is forced to wear Silicon Valley's digital straitjacket.

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842300113

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Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich Pdf

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.

Author : André P. Grace,Tonette S. Rocco
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787978273

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Challenging the Professionalization of Adult Education by André P. Grace,Tonette S. Rocco Pdf

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.

Author : Kim Turnbull James,J. Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230584068

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Leadership Perspectives by Kim Turnbull James,J. Collins Pdf

Taking its theme from the fifth annual Studying Leadership conference held at Cranfield School of Management, this work offers new formulations of the concept of leadership. Making a clear link between research and practice, it explores how new ideas about leadership will lead to new approaches to leadership practice.

Author : Boyers Inc Marion,Ivan Illich,Marion Boyars,Avan Allich
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Church and social problems
ISBN : 0714508381

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Celebration of Awareness by Boyers Inc Marion,Ivan Illich,Marion Boyars,Avan Allich Pdf

A collection of 12 articles dealing with institutional authority and its inadequacies.

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0394735013

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Toward a History of Needs by Ivan Illich Pdf

Author : F. Collyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137355621

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The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine by F. Collyer Pdf

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female and male theorists from across the globe, it explores various issues including chronic illness, counselling and the rising problems of obesity.

Author : Todd Hartch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190204563

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The Prophet of Cuernavaca by Todd Hartch Pdf

Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich is best known for books like Deschooling Society and Medical Nemesis that skewered the dominant institutions of the West in the 1970s. Although commissioned in 1961 by American bishops to run a missionary training center in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Illich emerged as one of the major critics of the missionary movement. As he became a more controversial figure, his center evolved into CIDOC (Centro Intercultural de Documentación), an informal university that attracted a diverse group of intellectuals and seekers from around the world. They came to Illich's center to learn Spanish, to attend seminars, and to sit at the feet of Illich, whose relentless criticism of the Catholic Church and modern Western culture resonated with the revolutionary spirit of the times. His 1967 article, The Seamy Side of Charity, a harsh attack on the American missionary effort in Latin America, and other criticisms of the Church led to a trial at the Vatican in 1968, after which he left the priesthood. Illich's writings struck at the foundations of western society, and envisioned utopian transformations in the realms of education, transportation, medicine, and economics. He was an inspiration to a generation of liberation theologians and other left-wing intellectuals. In The Prophet of Cuernavaca Todd Hartch traces the development of Illich's ideas from his work as a priest through his later secular period, offering one of the first book-length historical treatments of his thought in English.