Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey (Ivan Illich: 21st-Century Perspectives)

In the eighteen years since Ivan Illich's death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teacher's life and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents Illich's body of thought, locating it in its own time and retrieving its relevance for ours. Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a revolutionary figure in the Roman Catholic Church and in the wider field of cultural criticism that began to take shape in the 1960s. His advocacy of a new, de-clericalized church and his opposition to American missionary programs in Latin America, which he saw as reactionary and imperialist, brought him into conflict with the Vatican and led him to withdraw from direct service to the church in 1969. His institutional critiques of the 1970s, from Deschooling Society to Medical Nemesis, promoted what he called institutional or cultural revolution. The last twenty years of his life were occupied with developing his theory of modernity as an extension of church history. Ranging over every phase of Illich's career and meditating on each of his books, Cayley finds Illich to be as relevant today as ever and more likely to be understood, now that the many convergent crises he foresaw are in full public view and the church that rejected him is paralyzed in its "folkloric" shell. Not a conventional biography, though attentive to how Illich lived, Cayley's book is "continuing a conversation" with Illich that will engage anyone who is interested in theology, philosophy, history, and the Catholic Church.

Biographies & Memoirs

Cayley, David

Professionals & Academics

Penn State University Press

The Corruption of Christianity

History

Cbc Radio Canada

The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Pilgrim Press

Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church. The conversations range over the whole of Illich's published work and public career as a priest, vice-rector of a university, founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and author of such classics as Tools for Conviviality, Medical Nemesis, and Deschooling Society.

Ivan Illich in Conversation

House of Anansi Press

Northrop Frye discusses with David Cayley his life as a teacher and scholar, focusing on the university as "the engine room of society." This fascinating book concludes with Frye's thoughts on religion and his writings on the Bible.

Northrop Frye in Conversation

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Historian Ramsay Cook called George Grant one of Canada's two most important political thinkers in the twentieth century. In these lively conversations, recorded not long before Grant's death, David Cayley explores with Grant the deep roots of his faith, his evolution as a thinker, and his views on the future of Canada.

George Grant in Conversation (Conversation Series (Concord, Ont.).)

Philosophy

The Expanding Prison is a provocative, cogent argument for prison reform. David Cayley argues that our overpopulated prisons are more reflective of a society that is becoming increasingly polarized than of an actual surge in crime. This book considers proven alternatives to imprisonment that emphasize settlement-oriented techniques over punishment, and move us towards a vision of justice as peace making rather than one of vengeance.

Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives

In this provocative new book, respected Canadian journalist David Cayley compiles and reflects upon the thoughts of Ivan Illich, one of the 20th century's most visionary cultural critics. Illich believed that the West could only be understood as a corruption of the Christian New Testament. Cayley presents Illich's exploration of this idea, illuminating Illich's thoughts on the criminalization of sin, on how the Church has become a template for the modern nation-state, and how contemporary society has become a congealed and corrupted Christianity. These critiques are as timely and valuable as Illich's prescription for fixing them.

The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich

Featuring 
Sandor Goodhart 
James Alison 
Gil Bailie 
Robert Hamerton-Kelly 
Paul Dumouchel 
René Girard was a thinker who fits no category. His ideas fit no academic niche, but they attracted many followers during his long career as a teacher and writer. A large annual conference, “The Colloquium on Violence and Religion,” is devoted entirely to his ideas, as is a journal, Contagion. Those who participate in these conventions believe that Girard’s insights are an intellectual breakthrough. Within the growing circle of his readers and intellectual colleagues, René Girard is regarded as one of those fundamental thinkers who changed the way people look at the world.\nIn this Ideas volume, David Cayley and René Girard explore the whole body of Girard’s work. En route, they touch on literature, anthropology, the Bible, and the way Biblical revelation has shaped the modern world.

The Ideas of Rene Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Independently published

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Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey (Ivan Illich: 21st-Century Perspectives)

Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey (Ivan Illich: 21st-Century Perspectives)

The Corruption of Christianity

The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives

Ivan Illich in Conversation

Northrop Frye in Conversation

George Grant in Conversation (Conversation Series (Concord, Ont.).)

Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives

The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich

The Ideas of Rene Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence