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  • Deschooling Society

    by Ivan Illich ...
    Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centres for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time ... Read more

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  • Beyond Economics and Ecology

    The Radical Thought of Ivan Illich

    by Ivan Illich, Jerry Brown, Sajay Samuel ...
    Each of the four essays reprinted 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 ... Read more

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  • Tools for Conviviality

    by Ivan Illich ...
    A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. 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. This book claims out ... Read more

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  • Limits to Medicine

    Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the ... Read more

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  • ABC: The Alphabetizaton of the Popular Mind

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and attitudes, on memory, on political groupings and religous and cultural expectations. Their ... Read more

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  • Disabling Professions

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In this fascinating and controversial collection of essays Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken challenge the power and mystery of professions. Why do we put so much resource into medicine, education and the law with so little apparent result? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? By analyzing these ... Read more

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  • Gender

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male and female in both industrial society and its antecedents in order to recover a lost 'art of living'. 'While under any reign of gender women might be ... Read more

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  • Energy and Equity

    by Ivan Illich ...
    A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The "energy crisis' that exists intermittently when the flow of fuel from unstable countries is cut off or threatened, is a crisis in the same sense. When such a crisis is perceived in the western sphere, there are normally two solutions proposed: Relieve our dependence on foreign fuels by developing "ecologically friendly' energy ... Read more

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  • The Loss of the Senses

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The Loss of the Senses comprises seventeen essays that Ivan Illich (1926-2022) wrote between 1987 and 1998 and continued to edit until the end of his life. This collection is unknown to the English-speaking world.The essays cut across academic disciplines and range over different facets of contemporary life. Included among the many topics are the roots of the service economy, the history of the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Toward a History of Needs

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In these pages, Ivan Illich writes against the moral authority of professions, against economic "development" as an unquestioned good, against schooling as the privileged path to learning, against the subjugation of desire to needs, and against ever greater energy use. At first glance, much of this can seem passé. The prestige of the professions has withered; development is no longerdebated but ... Read more

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  • The Powerless Church and Other Selected Writings, 1955-1985

    by Ivan Illich ...
    Dalmatian-Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and radical cultural critic Ivan Illich is best known for polemical writings such as Deschooling Society and Tools for Conviviality which decried Western institutions of the 1970s. This collection brings together Illich's shorter writings from his early publications through the rise of his remarkable intellectual career, making available works ... Read more

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  • Celebration of Awareness

    A Call for Institutional Revolution

    by Ivan Illich ...
    As a formidable critic of some of society's most cherished institutions, such as compulsory education and organised religion, Ivan Illich has attracted world attention. His commitment to a radical humanism against conventional institutions and esatablished ideas of social virtue make for compelling, and convincing, reading. This book brings together for the first time many of his lectures and ... Read more

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