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Illich's table.(Ivan Illich)(Brief biography)(Report)
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Vitae Scholasticae
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January 1, 2006
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- Grego, Daniel
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"Is it not the case that our world is out of whack with any prior historical epoch?" (1)
--Ivan Illich
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In 1985, Wendell Berry wrote an essay entitled "What Are People For?" He recounted the mass migration in the Twentieth Century of U.S. farmers into cities and the consequent problems. There were growing numbers of underemployed or perhaps even "permanently unemployable" city dwellers while rural areas declined as a result of necessary work being left undone. "What are people for?" Berry wondered. He went on to ask, "Is the obsolescence of human beings now our social goal?" (2)
Early on, as a boy growing up in Chicago, I sensed ...
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Thought for the Day
The Independent - London;
November 14, 2000 ;
Ivan Illich;
24 words
..."In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy." Ivan Illich, American sociologist
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When Ivan Illich threw his lecture notes away
The Scotsman;
December 12, 2002 ;
DAVID HARDING;
240 words
...THE first time I heard Ivan Illich (Obituaries, 10 December) speak was at Edinburgh University...but in recent years I have often asked: "Whatever happened to Ivan Illich?" The obituary in The Scotsman supplied the answer. It always...
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Viera Gallo, José Antonio
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations;
ELIZABETH KNOWLES;
20 words
...Viera Gallo, José Antonio 1943– 1. Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.Ivan Illich Energy and Equity (1974) epigraph
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Ludwig von Mises's Human Action: A 50th anniversary appreciation
The Freeman;
September 1, 1999 ;
Ebeling, Richard;
787 words
......University Press released a major new work-Human Action by the Austrian economist Ludwig von...landmark in the progress of economics.... Human Action is, in short, at once the most uncompromising...statism, socialism, and totalitarianism, Human Action is that book. It should become ...
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Oakeshott and Mises on Understanding Human Action
The Independent Review;
October 1, 2005 ;
Callahan, Gene;
787 words
......century's most profound theorists of human action. Unarguably, both of them regarded the...a priori nature of the postulates of human action; the characteristics that differentiate...a common ground for theorizing about human action, which can be arrived at from distinct...
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 "All Things Considered (NPR)")
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Interview: Carl Mitchum discusses the life and works of Ivan Illich...
All Things Considered (NPR);
December 4, 2002 ;
JACKI LYDEN;
588 words
......Mitchum discusses the life and works of Ivan Illich following his death at the age of 76...Time: 9:00-10:00 PM JACKI LYDEN, host: Ivan Illich, a former Catholic priest and champion...call it to account. I would compare Ivan Illich, in some ways, with Dorothy Day, who...
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Oakeshott and Mises on understanding human action.(Michael Oakeshott,...
Independent Review;
September 22, 2005 ;
Callahan, Gene;
787 words
......century's most profound theorists of human action. Unarguably, both of them regarded the...a priori nature of the postulates of human action; the characteristics that differentiate...a common ground for theorizing about human action, which can be arrived at from distinct...
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Obituary Ivan Illich
The Scotsman;
December 10, 2002 ;
PETER CLARKE;
787 words
...Ivan Illich, social philosopher, author Born: 24 September, 1926, in Vienna Died: 2 December, 2002, in Bremen, aged 76 IVAN Illich was a radical and iconoclastic thinker who could deliver an electrifying speech and keep the hairs bristled in the...
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Human Action: A 50-Year Tribute
Ideas on Liberty;
October 1, 2001 ;
Greaves, Bettina Bien;
776 words
...BOOKS Human Action: A 50-Year Tribute Edited by Richard...tribute to Mises's major economic work, Human Action. The lead paper is by Ebeling himself...anti-Misesian doctrines. Robert W Poole Jr.'s "Human Action as a Guidebook to Modern Public Policy...
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The flourishing commons: disembodied conversation. (opinions oof Ivan...
Whole Earth;
September 22, 1998 ;
Swenson, Lee;
787 words
......travels with his teachers and friends -- Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, and Gary Snyder -- on...inventiveness. Lee: In one of his essays Ivan Illich begins with that classic definition...house and this side of the wilderness -- Ivan Illich: [To think the commons, we must consider...
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Ivan Illich, 1926-2002
Peacework;
February 1, 2003 ;
Anonymous;
787 words
...Aaron Falbel is a writer, farmer, and activist who for a number of years worked with Ivan Illich. Ivan Illich, a former Catholic priest, philosopher, historian, theologian, social critic, and activist, slipped away without...
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From the editor's desk
Peacework;
February 1, 2003 ;
Anonymous;
647 words
......from the closing memorial tributes to Philip Berrigan and Ivan Illich back to the opening reflections on an AFSC retrospective exhibition...demonstrators massed in New York last fall: "Don't get tired." Ivan Illich, social critic who disturbed the comfortable assumptions of...
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'The family car cannot drive the poor into the jet age'
India Abroad;
January 3, 2003 ;
Thayil, Jeet;
787 words
...Thayil, Jeet India Abroad 01-03-2003 Ivan Illich, man of many parts, lived much as he wrote Ivan Illich's passing will be mourned in many places considered marginal to the mainstream cultures of the First World. Variously described as a radical...
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