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The Prophet of Cuernavaca - Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West (Hardcover)
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The Prophet of Cuernavaca - Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West (Hardcover)
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Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich is best known
for books like Deschooling Society and Medical Nemesis that
skewered the dominant institutions of the West in the 1970s.
Although commissioned in 1961 by American bishops to run a
missionary training center in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Illich emerged as
one of the major critics of the missionary movement. As he became a
more controversial figure, his center evolved into CIDOC (Centro
Intercultural de Documentacion), an informal university that
attracted a diverse group of intellectuals and seekers from around
the world. They came to Illich's center to learn Spanish, to attend
seminars, and to sit at the feet of Illich, whose relentless
criticism of the Catholic Church and modern Western culture
resonated with the revolutionary spirit of the times. His 1967
article, "The Seamy Side of Charity," a harsh attack on the
American missionary effort in Latin America, and other criticisms
of the Church led to a trial at the Vatican in 1968, after which he
left the priesthood. Illich's writings struck at the foundations of
western society, and envisioned utopian transformations in the
realms of education, transportation, medicine, and economics. He
was an inspiration to a generation of liberation theologians and
other left-wing intellectuals. Todd Hartch traces the development
of Illich's ideas from his work as a priest through his later
secular period.
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