The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection

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249 I n d e x acedia, 6, 78 alternatives exclusion of, 172 to industrial growth, 156 to industrial society, 45 inspiration for, 12 to reductionistic theories, 75 for survival, 164 to the system, 166 to unlimited power, 184 apophatic theology argument using, 178 living an, 68 seeing the flesh through, 220 the tradition of, 1 as a way of seeing, 89 Arendt, Hannah, 204 askesis in Illich’s essays, 119 of knowing, 73 practices of, 160 a proper, 17 atmosphere, 233–42 basic needs, 74 and common needs, 83 to fulfill, 150 Berger, Peter, 16 Berry, Wendell, 132, 150 bibliography, Ivan Illich, 24–28. See also publications Bobrick, Benson, 105 body history in Illich’s thought, 77, 220, 223. See also medicine Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 3 Brand, Stewart, 28 Brown, Jerry, 10 Buber, Martin, 111 Canon, Peter (pen name of Illich), 37 Catholic Church Illich as critic of, 190 Illich’s criticism of, 40–41 support of Illich, 47 See also Church, Catholic Cayley, David, 60, 132, 146 Celan, Paul, 2, 3 Center of Intercultural Communication (CIC), 9, 20 Center of Intercultural Formation (CIF), 20 Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) Burkart at, 153–55 closed, 20 closing of, 159 defined, 13 founded, 9 Illich describes, 236 McKnight at, 49 meeting at, 45 spirit of, 158 certainties of the church, 163 of the establishment, 147 certainties (continued) Illich questions, 73 and institutions, 122 investigation of, 134 modern, 129 of professionals, 145 challenge fundamental, 9 of Illich, 11, 12, 74 Illich presents a, 6 meaning in Illich, 113–23 to psychology, 73 sociological, 15. See also certainties Church, Catholic, 157 See also Catholic Church communication and meaning, 98 miasma of, 172 popular usage of, 228 computer age of the, 228 control of, 100 demands attention, 90 and inner life, 98 power of, 92, 93 presence of, 96, 97 conjuratio, 241 conspiratio, 238–41 convivial book on, 118 community, 13 destruction of, 215 house in Bremen, 235 Illich’s household, 49 Illich’s life, 159 Illich speaks of, 156 key to, 67 threshold to, 142 work, 207 corruptio optimi quae est pessima Illich’s understanding of, 4 the key to history, 120 perversion of God’s call, 168–69 repeated citation of, 18 sounding the alarm, 129 starting point for Illich, 185 counterproductivity beyond the natural scale, 118 colonizing effects of, 50 the crisis of society, 197 in economic production, 76 of great institutions, 194 Illich’s concept of, 207, 208, 219 as paradoxical, 134 in services, 12 sociological meaning of, 15 term of Illich, 10 See also paradoxical counterproductivity Cross, the, in Illich’s thought, 220–21 culture in crisis, 117–18 in Illich’s thought, 76–82, 105–10 shaped by technology, 171 Dalmatia and Illich, 59–61 Illich’s home, 143 visit to, 234 death dying one’s own, 221 iatrogenesis of, 220 Illich writes about, 37, 40 See also medicine development belief in, 237 design for, 149 desirability of, 147 destructive results of, 156 economic, 76 to question, 235 ruins of, 144, 236 side effects of, 238 See also underdevelopment Devotio moderna, 96 disembodiment approach to, 227 and belief in the Incarnation, 229 contemporary, 226 history of, 228 iatrogenic, 222 on Illich’s agenda, 219 inquiry into, 223 250 INDEX objectivity and, 2 See also science disincarnation, 221 distributive justice, 155 disvalue, creation of, 76, 77 psychological consequences of, 78 Dohen, Dorothy, 37, 38, 42 Doshner, Joseph, 123 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 4, 215 Duden, Barbara, 235 Dumont, Louis, 16, 115, 191 Duve, Freimut, 10, 236 economy disembedded, 81 disembedding of, 77 growth of, 202 and independence, 158 influence of, 200 masquerade of, 105 and neighborliness, 137 realities of, 76 relation to culture, 78 relation to mimesis, 201 science of, 199 education in Illich’s thought, 129–34 and the myth of scarcity, 137 elegiac character of Illich’s writing, 18–19 Ellul, Jacques, 3, 15, 121, 130, 174 and la technique, 3, 121 embodiment, 81 energy use crisis of, 177–80 Illich’s idea of, 186 radical reduction of, 44 equity in Illich’s thought, 177–79 Esteva, Gustavo, 121, 132 European Union, 166, 167 evil bottomless, 212, 215 God allows, 191 human-engineered, 177 in the service of a good, 197, 202, 203 Feminist Issues, 152 Fiesta de San Juan Bautista, 38 Foucault, Michel, 73, 186, 225 Freire, Paulo, 9 friendship art of, 160 atmosphere for, 238 central to Illich’s life and work, 112 conditions...