Ivan Illich

"El mundo necesita del humanismo radical de Illich: por fin, una antología reúne sus más lúcidas críticas y alternativas a la educación castradora y el capitalismo ecocida. Filósofo y pedagogo, ana

During the 1980s Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In the current volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions that characterize our world today was laid in the twelfth century. The topics with which Illich engages center on health, housing, schooling, literacy, technology, peace and ethical values, his overiding concern being individual freedom realized in personal inter-dependence.

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 subordinate, under any economic regime they are only second sex... both genders are stripped, and, neutered, the man ends up on top. He argues that only a truly radical scrutiny of scarcity, with special attention in this study to the sexes and society, past and present, can prevent an intensification of this grim predicament.

As a formidable critic of some of societys 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 articles bearing out Illichs invigorating challanges to the status quo.

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 examination of the present erosion of literacy in the new technological languages of newspeak and uniquack and they point out how new attitudes to language are altering our world view; our sense of self and of community.

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 disposing of those judged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative book, Illich suggests some radical and exciting reforms for the education system.

A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illichs 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 individuals personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. This book claims out attention for the urgency of its appeal, the stunning clarity of its logic and the overwhelmingly human note that it sounds.

Con la escolaridad no se fomenta ni el deber ni la justicia porque los educadores insisten en aunar la instrucción y la certificación. El aprendizaje y la asignación de funciones sociales se funden en la escolarizacion. Aprender es con frecuencia el resultado de una instruccion, pero ser elegido para una funcion o categoria en el mercado del trabajo depende cada vez mas solo del tiempo que se ha asistido a un centro de instruccion. Ivan Illich.

Energía y equidad habla de la crisis energética, del transporte y del reparto injusto de la riqueza, pero sobre todo de la manera en que la sociedad industrial moldea las relaciones sociales y la percepcion que tenemos de nuestro espacio y nuestro cuerpo, asi como desmenuza la adoracion tan extendida a la velocidad, a la ilusa aceleracion de la vida a traves de los medios tecnicos. Originariamente publicado en 1974, esta edicion cuenta con una introduccion de Alfonso Sanz, quien muestra hasta que punto las tesis que aqui se defienden siguen siendo vigentes, innovadoras y necesarias.

El derecho al desempleo útil sintetiza la denuncia de aspectos y mecanismos que siguen amenazando a nuestra sociedad sin que nos demos cuenta de ello, arrastrándola, en nombre de la libertad y de la democracia, hacia situaciones cada vez mas opresivas y destructivas. Las ideas que formula Ivan Illich en este libro son de una enorme pertinencia para desvelar tendencias y problemas actuales, sobre todo cuando los tiempos de crisis de los años setenta a los que se refiere el autor muestran marcados paralelismos con los tiempos actuales. Esta edicion cuenta con una valiosa introduccion de Jose Manuel Naredo que nos introduce en la pertinencia del pensamiento de Illich en la contemporaneidad.Ivan Illich (1926-2002) fue un pensador austriaco cuyo trabajo abarco numerosas disciplinas y tematicas contemporaneas. Con una capacidad inusitada para el analisis social y cultural, su trabajo hace especial referencia a las relaciones entre el individuo y la sociedad, asi como las perversiones de la ciencia y la tecnologia en la sociedad contemporanea.

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 questions and putting forward radical answers, the authors make an invaluable contribution to the public debate on the power of professions.

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 extraction technology, or send an army to pacify the fuel-rich region in question. Both of these paths, seemingly at odds with each other, take as fundamentally true a certain proposition, that in no circumstances should we use less energy than we already use. In this conception, all human problems must be solved by the impressment of still more "energy slaves to meet the expanding demand of human masters. The two solutions consist of securing the current source of the drug, or finding a different, more secure pusher. In this essay, Illich examines the question of whether or not humans need any more energy than is their natural birthright. Along the way he gives a startling analysis of the marginal disutility of tools. After a certain point, that is, more energy gives negative returns. For example, moving around causes loss of time proportional to the amount of energy which is poured into the transport system, so that the speed of the fastest traveller correlates inversely to the equality as well as freedom of the median traveller.

Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the stuff of purity and the creative force of the imagination without which life in unthinkable. He deals with the dual nature of water, as life-giving material substance and as the wellspring of forml, on which are founded the most basic myths and cultural manifestations: water as cleanser, water as domestic necessity and water as a religious and spiritual force.

« La productivité se conjugue en termes d’avoir, la convivialité en termes d’être. »Philosophe, historien, prêtre sans paroisse, enseignant nomade et polyglotte, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) fut une figur