Denken nach Illich. To friends, listeners, readers, guests and the curious On this website, you will find essays and writings of Ivan Illich and those of some of his friends and collaborators.
Because most of the ideas and texts resulted from conversations or collaborative work, we have not organized the material according to each author, but according to the subject of each text. Furthermore, you will find on this site announcements of meetings and thinkeries "after Illich" that are organized by his friends in Bremen or elsewhere (see "news"). In this section we also list texts that are new on the web site. Terre de Liens. Ivan Illich (wikipedia) Ivan Illich (/ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/;[1] 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic"[2] 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.
Personal life[edit] He wrote a dissertation focusing on the historian Arnold J. Toynbee and would return to that subject in his later years. In 1951, he "signed up to become a parish priest in one of New York’s poorest neighborhoods—Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan, then a barrio of fresh-off-the-airplane Puerto Rican immigrants.