The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective ReflectionLee Hoinacki, Carl Mitcham 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 Illich s previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included. |
Contents
The Challenges of This Collection | 9 |
Ivan Illich as We Knew Him in the 1950s | 35 |
The Adventure of Publishing Ivan Illich | 43 |
On Ivan Illich and His Friends | 49 |
In the Shadow of Jerome | 59 |
Economy Subsistence and Psychological Inquiry | 73 |
Or Literacy Matters And How | 89 |
Glimpses of a World Past | 101 |
My Years Studying Ivan Illich | 153 |
Don Quixote in the Contemporary Global Tragicomedy | 163 |
Energy and the Mystery of Iniquity | 177 |
Ivan Illich and René Girard | 189 |
Ivan Illichs Break with the Past | 205 |
The Quest for Past Somatics | 219 |
The Cultivation of Conspiracy | 233 |
Contributors | 243 |
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The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection Lee Hoinacki,Carl Mitcham No preview available - 2002 |
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Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the ... Randall Amster No preview available - 2009 |