Ivan Illich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Illich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Illich |
| SIGNATURE | ILLICH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technology and Society at The Pennsylvania State University, 128 Willard Building, University Park, PA 16802 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toward a History of Needs
In these pages, Ivan Illich writes against the moral authority of professions, against economic “development” as an unquestioned good, against schooling as the privileged path to learning, against the subjugation of desire to needs, and against ever greater energy use. At first glance, much of this can seem passé. The prestige of the professions has withered; development is no longerdebated but assumed; education has migrated to platforms and cer…
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
The obsession with perfect health
In the developed countries, the obsession with perfect health has become a major pathogenic factor. In a world imbued with the instrumental ideals of science, the medical system creates constantly
L'entretien par le mage préventif: Extrait de Némésis médicale. L’expropriation de la santé
La médecine curative portant de plus en plus ses efforts sur des maladies pour lesquelles elle est inefficace, coûteuse et pénible, une nouvelle lubie a fait son apparition : la prévention de la maladie réalisée par de nouveaux professionnels chargés de l’entretien des corps. Après les soins de maladie, les soins de santé sont devenus une marchandise, c’est-à-dire quelque chose que l’on consomme et non quelque chose que l’on fait. Plus le salaire…
Los objetos como moldes de la memoria
Una comparación de la gente del libro y la gente de la pantalla. Presentación de Iván Ilich en honor de Belén Barbosa en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 29 de junio, 1990
Critique de la pensée du risque
Le développement de la médecine prédictive, qui peut définir des risques potentiels pour chacun, change profondément notre rapport à la santé. Faut-il apprendre à vivre avec ces risques abstraits ou repenser un autre rapport à notre futur et à notre santé
Le texte et l'université: Idée Et Histoire d'Une Institution Unique
Dans cet éloge de l'université, prononcé à Brême, Illich présente son analyse des transformations historiques des manières de lire, d'où est issu l'idéal du savoir universitaire qu'il veut opposer au pilotage de la science par les budgets de recherche
L'énergie, un objet social
Le changement de notre rapport à l'énergie est au centre de la crise économique actuelle. Mais comment l'énergie a-t-elle pris une place aussi importante dans notre conception du travail et de l'économie ? Cette investigation historique montre toute la force prophétique de l'approche d'Illich qui mêle l'érudition à une grande liberté vis-à-vis des priorités de son temps
Disabling professions
The rivers north of the future: The testament of Ivan Illich
L'histoire des besoins
Medical nemesis
This article was originally published in the Lancet in 1974.† It is reprinted here, as the centre of a set of articles, in memory of the death of Ivan Illich in December 2002
Énergie et équité
The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr
Pathogenesis, Immunity, and the Quality of Public Health
A Brief Biography of Ivan Illich
Health
Education in the Perspective of the Dropout
Statements
Die skopische Vergangenheit Europas und die Ethik der Opsis: Plädoyer für eine Geschichte des Blickes und Blickens
Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show
Pathogenesis, Immunity, and the Quality of Public Health
An Address to "Master Jacques"
Ivan Illich in Conversation
Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church. The conversations range over the whole of Illich's published work and public career as a priest, vice-rector of a university, founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and author of such classics as Tools for Conviviality, Medical Nemesis, and Deschooling Society
Computer Literacy and the Cybernetic Dream
Medical nemesis
This article was originally published in the Lancet in 1974.† It is reprinted here, as the centre of a set of articles, in memory of the death of Ivan Illich in December 2002
Shadow-Works
Vernacular Values
Énergie et équité
Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show
Statements
Die skopische Vergangenheit Europas und die Ethik der Opsis: Plädoyer für eine Geschichte des Blickes und Blickens
Pathogenesis, Immunity, and the Quality of Public Health
Vernacular Gender
The Delinking of Peace and Development
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
L'envers de la Charité
Calendar of Meetings
Johns Hopkins University, which are specifically designed to present issues and topics of current importance
The Rockefeller Report on the Americas. The Official Report of a United States Presidential Mission for the Western Hemisphere
Cultural Factors in Inter-American Relations
Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution
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 p…
Calendar of Meetings
The committee met to review the activities of the Pan American Health Organization in the field of health and population dynamics. An analysis was made of programs of research in reproduction, contraception, and demography, efforts in evaluation, service programs, operational research, and education and training. The committee established that the PAHO should give priority to health programs related to population dynamics. The director appointed …
"De cómo aventajar a los países "desarrollados
The Political Uses of Natural Death
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Medical Nemesis: The Exploration of Health
The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
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 and others outside the production of commodities for the Market
The End of Medicine
Vernacular Values
Shadow-Works
Shadow Work
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 surpass the conventional political ‘right-left’ and the technological ‘soft-hard’ alternatives and presents the concept of the ‘vernacular’ domain: “...to name those acts of competence, lust or concern that we want to defend from measurement by …
Development: Its Three Dimensions
Vernacular Gender
The Delinking of Peace and Development
Gender
A Plea for Body History (Twelve Years After Medical Nemesis)
Computer Literacy and the Cybernetic Dream
Ivan Illich in Conversation
Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church. The conversations range over the whole of Illich's published work and public career as a priest, vice-rector of a university, founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and author of such classics as Tools for Conviviality, Medical Nemesis, and Deschooling Society
An Address to "Master Jacques"
Political science (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)