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The Thought of Ivan Illich

Peoples & Things

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What Is the Utopian Vision of Conviviality?

i think we tend to talk about it as like solving the problems of technology with more technology, which is how you've put it. But then, what is his kind of utopian vision of conviviality? Like, what does he think the answer in our lives and in society is to that move? So i'll take the example of education. His title of the book is d schooling society, a title he did not choose. The argument is actually that schooling be disestablished. He's consciously borrowing from the language of disestablishment, of religion in the american tradition.

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