The Challenges of Ivan Illich

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The Challenges of Ivan Illich is written by Lee Hoinacki and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791488292 (ISBN 10) and 9780791488294 (ISBN 13).

This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays—all by people Illich has influenced personally—discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study, and practice of psychotherapy, notions about education, ideas concerning the historical development of the text, perceptions of technology, as well as other topics. All of Illich's books are discussed and his ideas on education, theology, technology, anarchism, and society are examined in relationship to those of René Girard, Karl Polanyi, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Ellul. Illich's previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.