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Ivan Illich - An Intellectual Journey (Hardcover)
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Ivan Illich - An Intellectual Journey (Hardcover)
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In the eighteen years since Ivan Illich’s death, David Cayley has
been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teacher’s life
and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents
Illich’s body of thought, locating it in its own time and
retrieving its relevance for ours. Ivan Illich (1926–2002) was a
revolutionary figure in the Roman Catholic Church and in the wider
field of cultural criticism that began to take shape in the 1960s.
His advocacy of a new, de-clericalized church and his opposition to
American missionary programs in Latin America, which he saw as
reactionary and imperialist, brought him into conflict with the
Vatican and led him to withdraw from direct service to the church
in 1969. His institutional critiques of the 1970s, from Deschooling
Society to Medical Nemesis, promoted what he called institutional
or cultural revolution. The last twenty years of his life were
occupied with developing his theory of modernity as an extension of
church history. Ranging over every phase of Illich’s career and
meditating on each of his books, Cayley finds Illich to be as
relevant today as ever and more likely to be understood, now that
the many convergent crises he foresaw are in full public view and
the church that rejected him is paralyzed in its “folkloric”
shell. Not a conventional biography, though attentive to how Illich
lived, Cayley’s book is “continuing a conversation” with
Illich that will engage anyone who is interested in theology,
philosophy, history, and the Catholic Church.
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