!!!Illich, Ivan

b. Vienna, Sept. 4, 1926, priest, social philosopher, critic of 
civilisation. Had to leave grammar school because of national 
socialist racial laws, took the higher school-leaving examination in 
Florence and studied in Rome. After ordination, worked in a Puerto 
Rican slum in New York and was elected vice-rector of the Catholic 
University in Puerto Rico in 1956. After conflict with the established 
Church he founded the "Centro intercultural de documentación" 
(CIDOC) in Cuernavaca (Mexico), which devotes itself to cultural 
development aid and has developed into an intellectual centre of Latin 
America. Because of increasing conflicts with Rome, he resigned from 
priesthood in 1969. Since the 1980s he has lived in Mexico, the USA 
and Germany; in his books and as a professor at universities in Bremen 
and Pennsylvania he deals with questions of global development, 
science and education.

!Works
Celebration of Awareness, 1970 (Almosen und Folter. Verfehlter 
Fortschritt in Lateinamerika, 1970); Deschooling Society, 1971 (Die 
Entschulung der Gesellschaft, 1973); Tools for Conviviality, 1973 
(Selbstbegrenzung, 1975); Energy and Equity, 1974 (Die sogenannte 
Energiekrise, 1974); Medical Nemesis, 1975 (Die Enteignung der 
Gesundheit), 1975); Gender, 1983 (Genus, 1983); H<SUB>2</SUB>O and the 
Waters of Forgetfulness, 1985 (H<SUB>2</SUB>O und die Wasser des 
Vergessens, 1987); Was macht den Menschen krank, 1991.


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