Tools for conviviality
Illich, Ivan
Tools for conviviality [E-Book] - 1 online resource (159 pages)
I. Two watersheds -- -- II. Convivial reconstruction -- -- III. The multiple balance -- 1. Biological degradation -- 2. Radical monopoly -- 3. Overprogramming -- 4. Polarization -- 5. Obsolescence -- 6. Frustration -- -- IV. Recovery -- 1. The demythologization of science -- 2. The redicsovery of language -- 3. The recovery of legal procedure -- -- V. Political inversion -- 1. Myths and majorities -- 2. From breakdown to chaos -- 3. Insight into crisis -- 4. Sudden change
A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. This book claims out attention for the urgency of its appeal, the stunning clarity of its logic and the overwhelmingly human note that it sounds.
9780714521602 (e-book)
Economic development--Social aspects.
Industries--Social aspects.
Industrialisation
Social philosophy
Electronic books.
Tools for conviviality [E-Book] - 1 online resource (159 pages)
I. Two watersheds -- -- II. Convivial reconstruction -- -- III. The multiple balance -- 1. Biological degradation -- 2. Radical monopoly -- 3. Overprogramming -- 4. Polarization -- 5. Obsolescence -- 6. Frustration -- -- IV. Recovery -- 1. The demythologization of science -- 2. The redicsovery of language -- 3. The recovery of legal procedure -- -- V. Political inversion -- 1. Myths and majorities -- 2. From breakdown to chaos -- 3. Insight into crisis -- 4. Sudden change
A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. This book claims out attention for the urgency of its appeal, the stunning clarity of its logic and the overwhelmingly human note that it sounds.
9780714521602 (e-book)
Economic development--Social aspects.
Industries--Social aspects.
Industrialisation
Social philosophy
Electronic books.