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Book SynopsisMore than a book about Illich, this is a conversation with Illich's work as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, just under twenty years after his passing, and almost ?fty years since his Deschooling Society was ?rst published. As Illich is beati?ed and demonised in equal measure, Educing Ivan Illich chooses to focus on the relationship between reform, contingency and disestablishment. As reform stands for a plurality of reiterations that seek effective forms of accordance, in our recognition of contingency we freely claim that even as we might recognize the presence of universality in how everything appears on a shared horizon, we are not denied the existence and dynamic reality of plural possibilities in their inherent contradictions. In this bargain of synchronicity, we ?nd that disestablishing the rei?ed universe by which we have, for so long, traded, staked and even lost our freedom and intelligence, is not just a desire but it becomes a must
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“In this scholarly reading of Ivan Illich, John Baldacchino conducts an astonishing feat; namely, to find ignored and minimized connections in Illich’s contribution to education. Educing Ivan Illich creates a new educational ‘language,’ with original viewpoints and perspectives, which expands our repertoire of thinking and our competence of acting—that we so desperately need when faced with educational situations. This volume should be read by anyone who has an interest not only in education but also in that which is good for humanity.”—Herner Saeverot, Professor of Education, Western Norway University
“Reading Illich’s work by relating the disestablishment of institutions to re-form and contingency, thereby implying radical freedom, this book situates Illich’s thought in a ‘Golgotha’ that is found outside the polis, the church and the market. It wonderfully shows the relevance of Illich’s topicality of conviviality and the relevance of the attention he pays to the quality of hiddenness and of the way Illich contests widespread concepts like ‘life’ and ‘responsibility’. In this way Educing Ivan Illich offers a really refreshing and fascinating entry into Illich’s thinking.”—Jan Masschelein, Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Table of Contents
Introduction – Books – Las Meninas – Reading as Stranger – A Boat that Sailed? – The Tyranny of Empirie – Tables of Friendship – Immanence – Conversos – Humanistic Peripheries – Hiddenness – Educing Illich – Utopia – As “It” Perpetuates – Freedom and Intelligence – Milking the Family Goat – Dreamers – A Promise – Quandaries – Tradition – Epoche – After Deschooling … – … What? – The Laic and the Ecclesial – Processed Emancipation(s) – Beneath God’s Nose – “Progressive conservative” – Philosophia Perennis – The Convivial Challenge – Learning – Equality, Liberty and Meaning – Theory, Choice and Common Sense – Damned Assumptions – Opinionated Evidence – The Three-Legged Stool – Kant’s Futuring – Lewis and Marx – Within the Spheres – Reform – Idolatrous Hypotheses – Colored Circles – Returning (to) Form – Shadow-Less Affairs – Abolished Worlds – Contingency – Golgotha’s khora – Kenotic Tools – After Contingency’s Sunset – Metaphor and Agency – Watersheds – Synchronically Possible – Franciscan Hope? – Disestablishment – A Journey’s Ends – Tools of Possibility – A Changed Nemesis – Myth and Transparency – Constructed Equity – Fabled Worlds – A Tomorrow without a Future – Responsibility – Algorithms – Neighbors and Foreigners – Maritain’s Beautiful Face – Beyond Sinful Planning – Bibliography – Index.
