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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 Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. [1]
Aug 31, 2024 · Ivan Illich 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.
- Aaron Cooley
- Early Life
- Ivan Illich and The Centre For Intercultural Documentation
- Later Work and Life
- Institutionalization, Expert Power, Commodification and Counterproductivity
- Convivial Alternatives
- Conclusion
- Further Reading and References
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna. His father, Ivan Peter, was a civil engineer. This meant that Ivan Illich, along with his younger, twin brothers were able to live comfortably, attend good schools and travel extensively in Europe (Smith and Smith 1994: 434). Illich was a student at the Piaristengymnasium in Vienna from 1936 to1941, but was expelled ...
Ivan Illich then went onto to be vice rector of the Catholic University of Ponce in Puerto Rico. However, he spent only four years there, being forced out of the university in 1960 because of his opposition to the then Bishop of Ponce’s forbidding of Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Munoz Marin (because of his advocacy of state-sponsored birth c...
Interest in his ideas within education began to wane. Invitations to speak and to write slackened, and as the numbers of missionaries headed for Latin America fell away, CIDOC began to fade. Illich’s thinking did not resonate with dominant mood in the discourses of northern education systems. At a time when there was increasing centralized control,...
As Ian Lister commented in his introduction to After Deschooling, What? (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 word ‘convivial’ has an immediate appeal for many educators and animateurs in that in everyday usage it looks to liveliness and being social (enjoying people’s company). However, while bring concerned with individual interaction, Ivan Illich was also interested in institutions and ‘tools’ – physical devices, mental constructs and social forms. ...
Ivan Illich’s concern for conviviality – on the ordering of education, work, and society as a whole in line with human needs, and his call for the ‘deprofessionalization’ of social relations has provided an important set of ideas upon which educators concerned with mutuality and sociality can draw. His critique of the school and call for the descho...
Cayley, D. (2021). Ivan Illich. An intellectual journey. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 560 pages. This is the best book published about the development of Ivan Illich’s thinking and way of life. It explores his theological, social, political and philosophical insights and their continuing relevance. Elias, ...
Illich loved the communal Catholicism of these first-generation immigrants and felt that their faith could enlarge the horizons of American Christianity; his parishioners loved him in turn, recognizing his deep commitment, to them and to the Catholic Church.
Jan 11, 2003 · Ivan Illich was a radical thinker whose ideas influenced the development in the 1970s of the environmental movement and of alternative and self-help health styles. He railed against modern technology, the education system, and standardised health care.
Jul 25, 2024 · Ivan Illich (1926–2002) was both radical and deeply traditioned. He believed that modern institutions have reshaped our perception and behaviour, producing a thinner, less attentive, more ...
Dec 9, 2021 · 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.
