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082			_a335 Ill.
100			_aIllich , Ivan D.
245		0	_aCelebration of awareness
260			_aMiddlesex
260			_bPenguin Books
260			_c1973
300			_a156 p.
520			_aEach 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.
650			_aEconomic
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