name: Ivan Illich
birth_date: 1926-09-04 00:00:00
death_date: 2002-12-02 00:00:00
genres: Social Sciences, Nonfiction, Philosophy
influences: Leopo, Jacques Ellul, Everett Reimer, Jacques Maritain, Leopold Kohr, Arnold Toynbee
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about: Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects of the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, and economic development.