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Ivan Illich : an intellectual journey / David Cayley.
Loaned to Another Library HM479.I45 C38 2021
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cayley, David, author.
- Series:
- Ivan Illich: 21st-century perspectives
- Ivan Illich: 21st-century perspectives series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illich, Ivan, 1926-2002.
- Illich, Ivan.
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- 552 pages ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Examines the life and writings of Roman Catholic Church reformer Ivan Illich (1926-2002) in the context of the wider field of cultural criticism that took shape in the 1960s and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Ivan Illich as I knew him
- Prologue : early life
- Exile
- Cuernavaca
- Church
- Deschooling society
- Illich as revolutionary
- Disabling professions
- Certainties
- Gender
- Embodiment/disembodiment
- "A bulldozer lurks in every computer" : on reading, writing, and language
- To hell with life
- Corruptio optimi pessima
- Apocalypse
- Illich's way of life
- Epilogue : the art of suffering
- Conclusion : a candle in the dark.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271088129
- 0271088125
- OCLC:
- 1191237425
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