Celebration of Awareness
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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 and include his profound questioning of bourgeois and liberal assumptions. With essays on charity, the clergyman, church, schooling and sexual power and political potency, the essays here contain much that will resonance in the twenty first century, as leaders and figure heads are brought under public scrutiny.
Published: Jan 1, 1971
| Section | Chapter | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ||
| Introduction | Erich Fromm | |
| Foreword | ||
| Foreword | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 1 | ||
| A Call to Celebration | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 2 | ||
| Violence: A Mirror for Americans | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 3 | ||
| Not Foreigners, Yet Foreign | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 4 | ||
| The Eloquence of Silence | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 5 | ||
| The Seamy Side of Charity | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 6 | ||
| The Vanishing Clergyman | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 7 | ||
| The Powerless Church | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 8 | ||
| The Futility of Schooling | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 9 | ||
| School: The Sacred Cow | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 10 | ||
| Sexual Power and Political Potency | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 11 | ||
| Planned Poverty: The End Result of Technical Assistance | Ivan Illich | |
| Chapter 12 | ||
| A Constitution for Cultural Revolution | Ivan Illich | |
Reviews
Ivan Illich's arguments are shrewd, open and passionate
The Guardian
I see the great value in the writings of Dr Illich precisely in the fact that they represent humanistic radicalism in its fullest and most imaginative aspect. The author is a man of rare courage, great aliveness, extraordinary erudition and brilliance, and fertile imaginativeness, whose whole thinking is based on his concern for man's unfolding - physically, spiritually, and intellectually. The importance of his thoughts in this as well as his other writings lies in the fact that they have a liberating effect on the mind by showing entirely new possibilities; they make the reader more alive because they open the door that leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions. By the creative shock they communicate - except to those who react only with anger at so much nonsense - they help to stimulate energy and hope for a new beginning.
from the Introduction by Erich Fromm