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Celebration of Awareness
Ivan Illich, Erich Fromm, Ivan Day
As a formidable critic of some of society’s most cherished institutions, such as compulsory education and organised religion, Ivan Illich wrote of the need for radical humanism and established an idea of social virtue. This book contains essays by Illich which challenge conventional orthodoxies a...
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Tools for Conviviality
Tools for Conviviality was published in 1973, only two years after Deschooling Society. In this 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 elit...