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It is difficult for readers new to Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Societyto grasp its message unless they place it in the ideological context of the late 1960s. Painting with a broad brush, we may say that focal concerns of this time included inequality, psychological impotence, and environmental crisis:
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Ivan Illich,, Deschooling Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1970). See also his Tools for Conviviality(New York: Harper & Row, 1973) and Medical Nemesis(New York: Pantheon, 1976).
Sumner Rosen, “Taking Mich Seriously,” in A. Gartner, C. Greer, and F. Riessman, eds., After Deschooling What? (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), pp. 85–103.
Ivan Mich, “A Plea for Body History: Twelve Years after Medical Nemesis,” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 6, no. 6 (1986): 19–22.
Ibid., p. 20.
Herbert Gintis, “Toward a Political Economy of Education: A Radical Critique of Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society,” in Gartner, Greer, and Riessman, After Deschooling What?, pp. 29–76.
I wish to thank Carl Mitcham for suggesting many useful stylistic and substantive improvements.
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Waks, L.J. (1991). Ivan Illich and Deschooling Society: A Reappraisal. In: Durbin, P.T. (eds) Europe, America, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives. Philosophy and Technology, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3242-8_4
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