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Deeply stimulatingTLS
Illich...has the power of intellect, personality and life example to command serious attention as a subversive.
The Guardian
Disabling Professions
Ivan Illich [+–]
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna to a Croatian father and Sephardic-Jewish mother, and had as native languages Italian, French and German. He later learnt Serbo-Croatian, the language of his grand-fathers, then Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi. Thereafter, he studied histology and crystallography at the University of Florence (Italy), theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in the Vatican (1942-1946) and medieval history in Salzburg. He is the author of Tools for Conviviality, The Right to Useful Unemployment, Energy and Equity, Limits to Medicine, Shadow Work, Gender, H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind, Deschooling Society and In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990. Illich lived much of his life in Mexico and the United States, he died in 2002.
A controversial collection of essays by Ivan Illich, Irving K. Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken in which they challenge the power and mystery of the professions, medicine, education and the law.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna to a Croatian father and Sephardic-Jewish mother, and had as native languages Italian, French and German. He later learnt Serbo-Croatian, the language of his grand-fathers, then Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi. Thereafter, he studied histology and crystallography at the University of Florence (Italy), theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in the Vatican (1942-1946) and medieval history in Salzburg. He is the author of Tools for Conviviality, The Right to Useful Unemployment, Energy and Equity, Limits to Medicine, Shadow Work, Gender, H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind, Deschooling Society and In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990. Illich lived much of his life in Mexico and the United States, he died in 2002.
Chapter 2
Irving Kenneth Zola (1935 – December 1, 1994) was an American activist and writer in medical sociology and disability rights.
Chapter 3
John McKnight
Chapter 4
Jonathan Caplan
Chapter 5
Berkeley professor, labor economist, specialist on issues of work, technology, and global production, Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies.
TLS
Illich...has the power of intellect, personality and life example to command serious attention as a subversive.
The Guardian