Ivan Illich

伊万·伊里奇

Lifespan
1926–2002
Nationality
Austrian
Role
Thinker and social critic
Books
1

Biography

Austrian thinker and former priest who left the Church. In Deschooling Society and Limits to Medicine he systematically criticized how modern institutions place their own survival above the goals they claim to serve, and became a figurehead of the deinstitutionalization critique.

Central Ideas

  • Institutions place their survival above their aims
  • Deschooling and learning exchanges
  • A systematic critique of professional monopoly

Books

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