Theologian, educator, and social critic Ivan Illich (born 1926) sought bridges between cultures and explored the bases of people's views of history and reality. Ivan Illich was born on September 4, 1926, to Ivan Peter and Ellen Illich in Vienna,...

An imaginative and relentlessly skeptical critic of technology and bureaucracy, Ivan Illich demonstrates that all of the social institutions cherished by human beings are harmful to human welfare. In his work he has attacked compulsory schooling,...

Most well known as a 1970s social critic of the technologies of schooling, development, and health, Ivan Illich (1926–2002) was born in Vienna, Austria, on September 4, and died in Bremen, Germany, on December 2. In the 1980s Illich shifted from...

Ivan Illich (pronounced [ɪˈvɑn ˈɪlɪtʃ][1]) (Vienna, September 4,1926 - Bremen, December 2,2002) was an Austrian philosopher and anarchist social critic. He authored a series of critiques of the institutions of contemporary western culture and...

Ivan Illich died in Bremen on December 2, 2002 at the age of seventy-six. As a German friend of his put it: "God gave him a beautiful death." Illich suddenly collapsed while at work in his study and died immediately. The New York...

Aaron Falbel is a writer, farmer, and activist who for a number of years worked with Ivan Illich. Ivan Illich, a former Catholic priest, philosopher, historian, theologian, social critic, and activist, slipped away without much fanfare on Monday, December 2, at the home...

"I think I'm American in all sorts of essential ways," said the 52-year-old war journalist David Rieff the other day, "but I never understood this American wish to look on the bright side. I just don't get it."Dubbed "Mr. Pessimism" by Time magazine in 2002,...