Lee Hoinacki & Carl Mitcham 
The Challenges of Ivan Illich [PDF ebook] 
A Collective Reflection

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

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.