Ivan Illich - Social Criticism (16 books) torrent

Ivan Illich (1926–2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic" of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.

The book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention was Deschooling Society (1971), a radical critical discourse on education as practiced in "modern" economies. Giving examples of what he regards as the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education, Illich posited self-directed education, supported by intentional social relations, in fluid informal arrangements:

"Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education--and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries."

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Most of the books in this torrent are improved versions of the books posted here:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9979600. You can find many other files there that I haven't included here.
My thanks to the original uploader.

These are all in PDF format unless otherwise stated below.


ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind (with Barry Sanders)

Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution

Deschooling Socity (EPUB, MOBI)

Disabling Professions (essays by Ivan Illich, Irving Kenneth Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan, Harley Shaiken)

Energy and Equity

Gender

H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness

Imprisoned in the Global Classroom

In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990 (EPUB, PDF)

In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon

Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Shadow Work

Tools for Conviviality

Toward a History of Needs


about Illich:

The Challenges of Ivan Illich - Lee Hoinacki & Carl Mitcham, eds.