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Ivan Dominic Illich (/ ɪ ˌ v ɑː n ˈ ɪ l ɪ tʃ / iv-AHN IL-itch, German: [ˈiːvan ˈɪlɪtʃ]; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that constrains learning to narrow situations in a fairly short period of the human lifespan. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of ...
Ivan Illich (born September 4, 1926, Vienna, Austria—died December 2, 2002, Bremen, Germany) was an Austrian philosopher and Roman Catholic priest known for his radical polemics arguing that the benefits of many modern technologies and social arrangements were illusory and that, still further, such developments undermined humans’ self-sufficiency, freedom, and dignity. Mass education and the modern medical establishment were two of his main targets, and he accused both of ...
(Illich 1976: 6), the central, coherent feature of Ivan Illich’s work on deschooling is a critique of institutions and professionals – and the way in which they contribute to dehumanization. ‘[I]nstitutions create the needs and control their satisfaction, and, by so doing, turn the human being and her or his creativity into objects’ (Finger and Asún 2001: 10).
Jun 21, 2024 · Ivan Illich was a “radically orthodox” monsignor who remained tradition-minded his entire life. With Pope Francis, his hour may have finally arrived.
Dec 9, 2021 · Ivan Illich. Photo by ‘Adrift Animal,’ CC BY-SA 4.0. Illich was an iconoclastic social critic, radical Christian, and cultural historian who soared to international fame in the 1970s with searing critiques of Western modernity, Christianity, and the professionalization of care in healthcare, education, and social services. An Austrian-born Catholic priest who often clashed with the Vatican, Illich eventually left the priesthood to become an itinerant speaker, public intellectual, and ...
1 day ago · Ivan Illich was both radical and deeply traditioned. He believed that modern institutions have reshaped our behaviour, producing a thinner, less attentive, more abstract way of life. His life’s ...
Jun 1, 2016 · Ivan Illich's attack on modern medicine, Medical Nemesis, appeared in 1974. The book famously opened with the statement: ‘The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.’ Forty years after its publication, this paper examines the major themes of the book, and asks whether events since its publication have added weight to Illich's thesis. Get full access to this article. View all access and purchase options for this article.
Ivan Domenic Illich was born on September 4, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, and died on December 2, 2002, in Bremen, Germany. His father, Gian Pietro Illich, was an aristocrat Croatian, and his mother, Ellen Rose Illich, was from German family of Jewish converts to Catholicism. Illich spoke Italian, Spanish, French, German, Croatian, Ancient Greek ...
Ivan Illich. Theologian, educator, and social critic Ivan Illich (born 1926) sought bridges between cultures and explored the bases of people's views of history and reality. Ivan Illich was born on September 4, 1926, to Ivan Peter and Ellen Illich in Vienna, Austria. His father came from an aristocratic and Christian family; his mother's family ...
A cogent essay by Jackie Brown and Philippe Mesly, written out of a deep and thorough understanding of Illich’s work. It draws on Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey. The essay takes up scarcity, the vernacular and what Illich called “the right to useful unemployment”":
