In the Mirror of the Past by Ivan Illich
During the 1980s, Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In this volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions tht characterize our world today were laid in the twelfth century. Topics center on health, housing, school, language and literacy, peace and ethics.
Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and critic of technological society and the unacknowledged axioms of the modern mind. He studied theology and philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome and obtained a doctorate in history at the University of Salzburg. He went to the United States in 1951, where he served as pastor in an Irish-Puerto Rican parish in New York City. From 1956 to 1960 he was vice-rector of the Catholic University in Puerto Rico. In 1961, Illich founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) at Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he developed many of his ideas. He held professorships at the University of Bremen (Germany) and Penn State University as well as the University of Pennsylvania (United States). He died in 2002, in Bremen, Germany.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780714531595 |
| ISBN 10 | 0714531596 |
| Title | In the Mirror of the Past |
| Author | Ivan Illich |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 234 |
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