-The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.- This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich's searing social critique. In Limits to Medicine Ivan Illich has enlarged on this theme of disabling social services, schools, and transport, which have become, through over-industrialization, harmful to man. In this radical contribution to social thinking Illich decimates the myth of the magic of the medical profession.
-The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.- This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich's searing social cr...
Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church. The conversations range over the whole of Illich's published work and public career as a priest, vice-rector of a university, founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and author of such classics as Tools for Conviviality, Medical Nemesis, and Deschooling Society.
Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church. The conversations range over the whole of Illich's publi...
In this provocative new book, respected Canadian journalist David Cayley compiles and reflects upon the thoughts of Ivan Illich, one of the 20th century's most visionary cultural critics. Illich believed that the West could only be understood as a corruption of the Christian New Testament. Cayley presents Illich's exploration of this idea, illuminating Illich's thoughts on the criminalization of sin, on how the Church has become a template for the modern nation-state, and how contemporary society has become a congealed and corrupted Christianity. These critiques are as timely and valuable as...
In this provocative new book, respected Canadian journalist David Cayley compiles and reflects upon the thoughts of Ivan Illich, one of the 20th centu...
Illich's theories on the effectiveness of cars, air travel, and energy showed that industrial progress actually hampers the speed and effectiveness we have as people who were born capable of walking to our desired destinations. Roads, airports, stations, traffic jams, all take away the benefits of using complicated engineered methods of travel, and make our actual travel times longer.
Illich's theories on the effectiveness of cars, air travel, and energy showed that industrial progress actually hampers the speed and effectiveness we...
Der Autor fordert eine Begrenzung des Wachstums nicht nur aus ökologischen Gründen, sondern vor allem mit dem Ziel, den Menschen wieder zu einem autonomen Wesen werden zu lassen. Ein Ziel, dem vor allem die von uns selbst geschaffenen Institutionen und die stetig wachsende Zahl von Experten und Spezialisten im Wege stehen. Mit diesem Buch schuf Illich nicht nur die ersten Bausteine zu einer allgemeinen Theorie der Industrialisierung, sondern legte zudem eine radikale Kritik der Institutionen und Expertenzünfte vor.
Der Autor fordert eine Begrenzung des Wachstums nicht nur aus ökologischen Gründen, sondern vor allem mit dem Ziel, den Menschen wieder zu einem aut...