Celebration of awareness

By:

Illich , Ivan D

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Middlesex; Penguin Books; 1973Description: 156 pSubject(s):

Economic

DDC classification:

335 Ill.

Summary: Each chapter in this volume records an effort of mine to question the nature of some certainty. Each therefore deals with deception -the deception embodied in one of our institutions, Institutions create certainties, and taken seriously, certainties deaden the heart and shackle the imagination. It is always my hope that my statements, angry or passionate, artful or innocent, will also provoke a smile, and thus a new freedom- even though the freedom come at a cost. Shortly after original publication most of these papers became notorious. This was not accident. Each essay was written in a different language, addressed to a different group of believers, meant to hit home at a particular crisis of confidence. Each rubbed some well-established bureaucrats the wrong way, at the moment the latter were finding it difficult to rationalize a 'busi ness as usual' position.

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Each chapter in this volume records an effort of mine to question the nature of some certainty. Each therefore deals with deception -the deception embodied in one of our institutions, Institutions create certainties, and taken seriously, certainties deaden the heart and shackle the imagination. It is always my hope that my statements, angry or passionate, artful or innocent, will also provoke a smile, and thus a new freedom- even though the freedom come at a cost.

Shortly after original publication most of these papers became notorious. This was not accident. Each essay was written in a different language, addressed to a different group of believers, meant to hit home at a particular crisis of confidence. Each rubbed some well-established bureaucrats the wrong way, at the moment the latter were finding it difficult to rationalize a 'busi ness as usual' position.

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