Ivan Illich
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born
September 04, 1926
died
December 02, 2002
gender
male
place of birth
Vienna, Austria
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genre
Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Sciences
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Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects of the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, and economic development.
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Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich avg rating 4.10 — 136 ratings — published 1971 8 editions |
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Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich avg rating 4.27 — 30 ratings — published 1973 9 editions |
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Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich avg rating 3.94 — 17 ratings — published 1975 9 editions |
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Energy and Equity by Ivan Illich avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published 1974 3 editions |
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The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies by Ivan Illich avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 1999 |
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Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 1978 |
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Celebration of Awareness by Ivan Illich avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 1971 4 editions |
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In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon by Ivan Illich avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1993 2 editions |
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Gender by Ivan Illich avg rating 3.25 — 8 ratings — published 1982 4 editions |
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Toward a history of needs by Ivan Illich avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 1978 4 editions |
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"Les enfants sont par définition des apprentis, et apprendre est l'activité humaine qui nécessite le moins de manipulation par autrui. La majeure partie de l'apprentissage n'est pas le resultat de l'instruction. Elle serait plutôt le résultat d'une participation dans un environnement chargé de sens."
— Ivan Illich
— Ivan Illich
"Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need."
— Ivan Illich
— Ivan Illich
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"The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place"
— Ivan Illich (Shadow-work)
— Ivan Illich (Shadow-work)
