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Illich looked askance at the liberal pity or conservative imperiousness that motivated the rising tide of global industrial development.
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" In 1956, at the age of 30, he was appointed as the vice rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, " a position he managed to keep for several years before getting thrown out — Illich was just a little too loud in his criticism of the Vatican ’ s pronouncements on birth control and comparatively demure silence about the bomb.
In 1961, Illich founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación ( CIDOC, or Intercultural Documentation Center ) at Cuernavaca in Mexico, ostensibly a research center offering language courses to missionaries from North America and volunteers of the Alliance for Progress program initiated by John F. Kennedy.
In 1961 Illich founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación ( CIDOC ) at Cuernavaca in Mexico, in order to " counterfoil " the Vatican's participation in the " modern development " of the so-called Third World.
Replying to this type of criticism, the Russian Marxist Isaak Illich Rubin argued that the concept of abstract labour was really much more complex than it seemed at first sight.
Illich and industrial
In this new work Illich generalized the themes that he had previously applied to the field of education: the institutionalization of specialized knowledge, the dominant role of technocratic elites in industrial society, and the need to develop new instruments for the reconquest of practical knowledge by the average citizen.
: The main notion of Ivan Illich is the concept of counterproductivity: when institutions of modern industrial society impede their purported aims.
Illich and development
Ivan Illich (; Vienna, 4 September 1926 – Bremen, 2 December 2002 ) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and " maverick social critic " of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.
At the CIDOC, " Illich was able to develop his potent and highly influential critique of Third World development schemes and their fresh-faced agents: Kennedy ’ s Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, and countless other missionary efforts bankrolled and organized by wealthy nations, foundations, and religious groups.
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* 2002 – Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher ( b. 1926 )
In his paper Hospitality and Pain, Christian theologian Ivan Illich states: " Compassion with Christ ... is faith so strong and so deeply incarnate that it leads to the individual embodiment of the contemplated pain.
Colin Ward in his main theorectical publication Anarchy in Action ( 1973 ) in a chapter called " Schools No Longer " " discusses the genealogy of education and schooling, in particular examining the writings of Everett Reimer and Ivan Illich, and the beliefs of anarchist educator Paul Goodman.
He draws the same distinction as Ivan Illich, between tools that stay under the control of the user, and technological systems that draw the user into their control.
Also during this year, Ivan Illich described computer-based " learning webs " in his book Deschooling Society.
Illich was born in Vienna to a Croatian, Catholic father — engineer Ivan Peter Illich and Sephardic Jewish mother — Ellen née Regenstreif-Ortlieb.
Illich had Italian, Spanish, French, and German as native languages.
" It was in Puerto Rico that Illich met Everett Reimer and the two began to analyze their own functions as " educational " leaders.
Unpopular with the local chapter of Opus Dei, Illich was called to Rome for questioning, due in part to a report from the CIA.
In 1976, Illich, apparently concerned by the influx of formal academics and the potential side effects of its own " institutionalization ," shut the center down with consent from the other members of the CIDOC.
Illich himself resigned from the active priesthood in the late 1960s ( having attained the rank of monsignor ), but continued to identify as a priest and occasionally performed private masses.
In the 1970s, Illich was popular among leftist intellectuals in France, his thesis having been discussed in particular by André Gorz.
In the 1980s and beyond, Illich traveled extensively, mainly splitting his time between the United States, Mexico, and Germany.
The book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention was Deschooling Society ( 1971 ), a radical critical discourse on education as practised in " modern " economies.
" Illich proposed that we should " invert the present deep structure of tools " in order to " give people tools that guarantee their right to work with independent efficiency.
In his Medical Nemesis, first published in 1975, also known as Limits to Medicine, Illich subjected contemporary Western medicine to detailed attack.
Others have since voiced similar views, but none so trenchantly, perhaps, as Illich.
looked and askance
" The conditions of human society create for this an imperious demand ; the concentration of capital is a necessity for meeting the demands of our day, and as such should not be looked at askance, but be encouraged.
The German juristic world was still under the dominating influence of the Savigny cult, and the older school looked askance at the daring of the young professor, who attempted to adapt the old to new exigencies and to build up a system of natural jurisprudence.
The bad news: This version, apparently, was an unqualified disaster, perhaps because burgeoning feminism looked askance at the Jane Ace type of character, and also because of an incredibly low production budget, but most likely because the cast performing the remade scripts just weren't the relaxed Mr. Ace and Jane.
Frederick II ( Frederick the Great ) looked askance upon many of his new citizens.
The Slavophiles viewed Slavic philosophy as a source of wholeness in Russia and looked askance at rationalism and materialism in the west part of Europe.
Predictably, the rival Pennsylvania Railroad, which dominated rail service into Pittsburgh, looked askance upon such plans as they became known.
Boston's Puritans looked askance at unorthodox religious ideas, and exiled or punished dissenters.
He looked askance at all projects for the emancipation of the serfs, but, as one of the largest landowners of Denmark, he did service to agriculture by lightening the burdens of the countrymen and introducing technical and scientific improvements, which also increased production.
The Hindus by religion were ordained to support a sikha or knot on head and therefore, looked askance towards those who had their hair cropped short ( mundah ).
In part he wanted some distance from family and neighbors who looked askance at his Swedenborgian faith and program of manumission.
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She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
The grateful way she looked at Morgan made him ashamed of himself.
He looked over his shoulder at the thin dotting of pursuers.
He looked at the looming hoods of the supply wagons, struck by a new inspiration.
Fred Rankin looked at him.
She looked at him, lips compressed.
Brannon looked at Hank Maguire.
He looked at each of them in turn, Brannon last of all.
He turned and looked around at the lobby as though seeing things he hadn't before noticed.
He looked down at his big hands and slowly flexed his long fingers.
Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.
Rod looked apprehensively ahead at the narrowing, precipice-walled gorge.
I looked back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car's rear window.
I looked at my watch.
Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.
He looked thoughtfully at his wife's trunk, holding her meager treasures.
I looked with revulsion at the legs.
The girl looked around at the countryside.
He turned and looked at them with clear blue eyes, immaculate eyes.
Ramey looked down and saw the white sneaker at the bottom of the man's tanned leg cautiously nudge a bit of folded, blood-flecked substance lying by itself on the pavement.
The girl looked around quickly at several of the people.
Shaffner looked at him, altogether without guile, and shrugged his shoulders, making a little spreading gesture with his two hands.
As he looked up from picking at a leg ulcer, he saw a marine in the jungle across the clearing.
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