La primera edición en inglés de La sociedad desescolarizada de Iván Illich fue comercializada por la editorial Harper & Row en 1971 bajo el título Deschooling Society. En poco tiempo aparecieron traducciones...

Con la escolaridad no se fomenta ni el deber ni la justicia porque loseducadores insisten en aunar la instrucción y la certificación. El aprendizajey la asignación de funciones sociales se funden en...

Con la escolaridad no se fomenta ni el deber ni la justicia porque los educadores insisten en aunar la instrucción y la certificación. El aprendizaje y la asignación de funciones sociales se funden en...

Este libro es una crítica a la educación tal y como se lleva a cabo en las economías "modernas". Lleno de observaciones críticas sobre los planes de estudios de su tiempo, el libro puede parecer desfasado,...

El volumen recupera cuatro espléndidos títulos: El género vernáculo, El trabajo fantasma, H2O y las aguas del olvido y En el espejo del pasado. Es una obra heterogénea que aborda áreas del conocimiento...

Las tesis de Iván Illich, que encierran una profunda crítica a la sociedad industrial - que se mantiene en pie gracias al embrutecimiento de sus miembros y al cinismo de sus dirigentes-, conservan en...

Filósofo, sacerdote católico y pensador radical de la cultura, a Iván Illich se lo conoce sobre todo por escritos polémicos como La sociedad desescolarizada, La convivencialidad o Némesis médica, en los...

Ivan Illich è stato un profeta? Descolarizzare la società è stato solo uno slogan o un’anticipazione del futuro? La scuola, così come la conosciamo finora, ha raggiunto o fallito il suo scopo? I curricula...

Un nuovo modello di svilupop è possibile Per l'indimenticato maestro Ivan Illich, nato a Vienna nel 1926, la società conviviale è quella in cui gli strumenti a disposizione della comunità sono vissuti...

Salute e diritti Ivan Illich - sacerdote, storico, teologo, filosofo, polemista, iconoclasta, ci offre un'altra critica importante all'inesorabile industrializzazione della nostra società. Al centro del...

As a formidable critic of some of society's most cherished institutions, such as compulsory education and organised religion, Ivan Illich has attracted world attention. His commitment to a radical humanism...

The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan...

A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The "energy crisis' that exists intermittently when the flow of fuel from unstable countries is cut off or threatened, is a crisis in the...

Each of the four essays reprinted here was written for a specific occasion and together comprise only the smallest selection from a larger corpus questioning commodity and energy-intensive economies....

Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper...

In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which...

The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals...

A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which noted social...

In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present...

In this fascinating and controversial collection of essays Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken challenge the power and mystery of professions. Why do we put so...

During the 1980s Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In the current volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions...

In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves...

Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the 'stuff' of purity and the creative force of the imagination...

« La productivité se conjugue en termes d’avoir, la convivialité en termes d’être. »Philosophe, historien, prêtre sans paroisse, enseignant nomade et polyglotte, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) fut une figure...

Los artículos reunidos por Iván Illich en Alternativas ponen en cuestión la naturaleza de certidumbres particulares, reflejadas en tradiciones, valores, grupos o instituciones. Todos están guiados por...