Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.
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 Illich’s previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface and Acknowledgments
PART I. INTRODUCTIONS
1. Reading Ivan Illich
Lee Hoinacki
2. The Challenges of This Collection
Carl Mitcham
PART II. THE PERSON
3. Ivan Illich as We Knew Him in the 1950s
Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J.
4. The Adventure of Publishing Ivan Illich
Marion Boyars
5. On Ivan Illich and His Friends
John L. Mc Knight
6. Ivan Illich at the Wissenschaftskolleg
Gesine Bottomley
7. In the Shadow of Jerome
Domenico Farias
PART III. ARENAS OF THOUGHT
8. Economy, Subsistence, and Psychological Inquiry
Robert Kugelmann
9. ABC Redux: Or Literacy Matters. And How!
Barry Sanders
10. Ivan Illich’s Concept of ‘Rests’: Glimpses of a World Past
David B. Schwartz
11. Hospitality Cannot Be a Challenge
Alfons Garrigós
PART IV. FACING SOCIETY
12. The Mess We’re In: How Ivan Illich Revealed to Me That the American Dream Is Actually a Nightmare
Aaron Falbel
13. A Letter on Studying with Master Illich
Madhu Suri Prakash
14. From the Economy to Friendship: My Years Studying Ivan Illich
Eugene J. Burkart
15. Don Quixote in the Contemporary Global Tragicomedy
Alastair Hulbert
PART V. EXTENDING INTERPRETATIONS
16. Energy and the Mystery of Iniquity
Jean Robert
17. Detour and Sacrifice: Ivan Illich and René Girard
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
18. Ivan Illich’s Break with the Past
Pieter Tijmes
19. The Quest for Past Somatics
Barbara Duden
PART VI. EPILOGUE
20. The Cultivation of Conspiracy
Ivan Illich
Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
Lee Hoinacki is an independent scholar in residence at St. Malachy’s, Philadelphia, and the author of El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela; Stumbling Toward Justice: Stories of Place; and Dying Is Not Death. Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines and author of Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy and other works of critical reflection on science and technology.
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