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The Thought of Ivan Illich
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86 minutes
Released:
Jan 20, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Author L. M. Sacasas talks about the life, thought, and legacy of the Catholic priest, philosopher, and social critic Ivan Illich with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. Sacasas and Vinsel discuss Illich’s critiques of bureaucracy, technology, scale, and expertise and how these critiques apply to medicine, education, our credential society, and life with media technologies.
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Released:
Jan 20, 2023
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
John H. Summers, “Every Fury on Earth” (Davies Group, 2008): The vast majority of historians write history. Perhaps that’s good, as one should stick to what one knows. But there are historians who braves the waters of social and political criticism. One thinks of Arthur Schelsinger Jr., Richard Hofstadter, by New Books in Critical Theory