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Book The Challenges of Ivan Illich

Download or read book The Challenges of Ivan Illich written by Lee Hoinacki and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.

Book The Challenges of Ivan Illich

Download or read book The Challenges of Ivan Illich written by Lee Hoinacki and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Illich's previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.

Book Ivan Illich in Conversation

Download or read book Ivan Illich in Conversation written by David Cayley and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1992-06-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Beyond Economics and Ecology  the Radical Thought of Ivan Illich

Download or read book Beyond Economics and Ecology the Radical Thought of Ivan Illich written by Ivan Illich and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Book Tools for Conviviality

Download or read book Tools for Conviviality written by Ivan Illich and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visions of Unity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yaroslav Komarovski
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2011-12-01
  • ISBN : 1438439113
  • Pages : 467 pages

Download or read book Visions of Unity written by Yaroslav Komarovski and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book discusses the thought of Tibetan Buddhist thinker Shakya Chokden (1428–1507) on the two major systems of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Influential and controversial in his own day, Shakya Chokden's thought fell out of favor over time and his writings were eventually repressed, becoming available again only in the 1970s. Yet, his startling interpretations of the core areas of Buddhist thought remain valuable and well worth consideration today. Yaroslav Komarovski has used the twenty-four volumes of Shakya Chokden's collected work to provide a systematic presentation of a central aspect of his thought: a reconciliation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka. Providing a detailed analysis of the two systems' mutual refutations of each other, Shakya Chokden argues for their fundamental compatibility and shared vision. In analyzing Shakya Chokden's ideas, Komarovski explores some of the most important issues of both traditional and modern Buddhist scholarship, including contested approaches to the nature of reality, the relationship between philosophy and contemplative practice, inter- and intrasectarian Buddhist polemics, and the nature of consciousness and mental processes.

Book Limits to Medicine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ivan Illich
  • Publisher : Marion Boyars
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780714529936
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Limits to Medicine written by Ivan Illich and published by Marion Boyars. This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.

Book The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Download or read book The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies written by Ivan Illich and published by London : M. Boyars ; Don Mills, Ont. : Burns & MacEachern. This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on a philosophy for restoring quality of life to modern society - contends that autonomous activities, in which both rich and poor people might find a sense of creativity and freedom, have been thwarted by professionalism, technocracy, and the pursuit of productivity.

Book The Prophet of Cuernavaca

Download or read book The Prophet of Cuernavaca written by Todd Hartch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first biography of Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich, who skewered the institutions of the West in the 1970s.

Book Tools for Conviviality

Download or read book Tools for Conviviality written by Ivan Illich and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book In the Mirror of the Past

Download or read book In the Mirror of the Past written by Ivan Illich and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s, Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In this volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions tht characterize our world today were laid in the twelfth century. Topics center on health, housing, school, language and literacy, peace and ethics.

Book To Save Everything  Click Here

Download or read book To Save Everything Click Here written by Evgeny Morozov and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-life democracy

Book Marcuse s Challenge to Education

Download or read book Marcuse s Challenge to Education written by Douglas Kellner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcuse's Challenge to Education, a collection of unpublished lecture notes by the thinker himself as well as essays by scholars who have explicated his theories, examines Herbert Marcuse's ground-breaking critique of education as well as his own pedagogical alternatives. Edited by Douglas Kellner, this compilation provides an overview of the various themes of Marcuse's challenges to traditional education and connections with ideas of other radical thinkers ranging from Bloch and Freire to Freud and Lacan.

Book Adult Education at the Crossroads

Download or read book Adult Education at the Crossroads written by Matthias Finger and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Celebration of Awareness

Download or read book Celebration of Awareness written by Ivan Illich and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Learning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Kalantzis
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-06-29
  • ISBN : 1107644283
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book New Learning written by Mary Kalantzis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated and revised, the second edition of New Learning explores the contemporary debates and challenges in education and considers how schools can prepare their students for the future. New Learning, Second Edition is an inspiring and comprehensive resource for pre-service and in-service teachers alike.

Book Challenging the Professionalization of Adult Education

Download or read book Challenging the Professionalization of Adult Education written by André P. Grace and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.