{"product_id":"ivan-illich-an-intellectual-journey-ivan-illich-21stcentury-perspectives-9780271088129","title":"Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey (Ivan Illich: 21st-Century Perspectives)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the eighteen years since Ivan Illichs death  David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teachers life and work. Now  in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey  he presents Illichs body of thought  locating it in its own time and retrieving its relevance for ours. Ivan Illich (19262002) 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 Illichs career and meditating on each of his books  Cayleyfinds 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  Cayleys book is continuing a conversation with Illich that will engage anyone who is interested in theology  philosophy  history  and the Catholic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666108047413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271088125","price":120.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271088129.jpg?v=1782419951","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ivan-illich-an-intellectual-journey-ivan-illich-21stcentury-perspectives-9780271088129","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}