Challenges of Ivan Illich

Lee Hoinacki is an independent scholar in residence at St. Malachy's, Philadelphia, and the author of El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela; Stumbling Toward Justice: Stories of Place; and Dying Is Not Death. Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines and author of Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy and other works of critical reflection on science and technology.

"…highly recommend[ed] … to all those who have been challenged by Illich's writing over the years, and to anyone who would like to be introduced to the works of someone whose friends so appreciated being challenged by his words and deeds that they published a book in his honour even before he died." — Environments"This is an excellent summary of how the life and ideas of Ivan Illich, one of the most iconoclastic and brilliant public intellectuals of the twentieth century, influenced the lives and careers of important philosophers, scholars, and social activists. The personal narratives illuminate the impact of Illich's ideas in the spheres of religion, education, and grassroots social movements." — Robert F. Arnove, coeditor of Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local

• Preface and Acknowledgments PART I. INTRODUCTIONS 1. Reading Ivan IllichLee Hoinacki 2. The Challenges of This CollectionCarl Mitcham PART II. THE PERSON 3. Ivan Illich as We Knew Him in the 1950sJoseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J. 4. The Adventure of Publishing Ivan IllichMarion Boyars 5. On Ivan Illich and His FriendsJohn L. McKnight 6. Ivan Illich at the WissenschaftskollegGesine Bottomley 7. In the Shadow of JeromeDomenico Farias PART III. ARENAS OF THOUGHT 8. Economy, Subsistence, and Psychological InquiryRobert Kugelmann 9. ABC Redux: Or Literacy Matters. And How!Barry Sanders 10. Ivan Illich's Concept of "Rests": Glimpses of a World PastDavid B. Schwartz 11. Hospitality Cannot Be a ChallengeAlfons Garrigós PART IV. FACING SOCIETY 12. The Mess We're In: How Ivan Illich Revealed to Me That the American Dream Is Actually a NightmareAaron Falbel 13. A Letter on Studying with Master IllichMadhu Suri Prakash 14. From the Economy to Friendship: My Years Studying Ivan IllichEugene J. Burkart 15. Don Quixote in the Contemporary Global TragicomedyAlastair Hulbert PART V. EXTENDING INTERPRETATIONS 16. Energy and the Mystery of Iniquity Jean Robert 17. Detour and Sacrifice: Ivan Illich and René GirardJean-Pierre Dupuy 18. Ivan Illich's Break with the PastPieter Tijmes 19. The Quest for Past SomaticsBarbara Duden PART VI. EPILOGUE 20. The Cultivation of ConspiracyIvan Illich Contributors Index