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| Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
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SOMMAIRE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna in 1926. He studied theology and
philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome and obtained a Ph.D.
in history at the University of Salzburg. He came to the United States
in 1951, where he served as assistant pastor in an Irish-Puerto Rican
parish in New York City. From 1956 to 1960 he was assigned as
vice-rector to the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, where he
organized an intensive training center for American priests in Latin
American culture. Illich was a co-founder of the widely known and
controversial Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) in
Cuernavaca, Mexico, and since 1964 he has directed research seminars on
"Institutional Alternatives in a Technological Society," with
special focus on Latin America. Ivan Illich's writings have appeared
in The New York Review, The Saturday Review, Esprit, Kuvsbuch,
Siempre, America, Commonwealth, Epreuves, and Tern PS Modernes.
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