description: s/t: A Call for Institutional RevolutionThe book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam &amp; the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico &amp; immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change &amp; development; the futility of schooling; the question of technical assistance &amp; programs for 3rd world birth control. Each issue, while real &amp; urgent in its own right, becomes a paradigm case which reveals a fundamental theoria/praxis of revolution, informed by a philosophical &amp; theological discipline &amp; sensibility which transcends, tho it cannot avoid, concrete issues in a given time &amp; place. In each essay, Illich uses the method of radical doubt--not in a Cartesian but in a Socratic sense. He challenges the 'nature of some certainty' purveyed as truth. Hence he's dealing with 'the deception embodied in one of our institutions.' The most widespread &amp; pernicious deception pretended as certainty he questions is the certainty of ideological liberals who assume that people make their livee by their institutions &amp; therefore the institutions of N. American industrial civilization can &amp; should be translated to the 3rd world for its own good: especially the institutions of schooling &amp; technical assistance designed to help a given nation emulate the affluence of the US.--Richard A. Underwood: Journal of the American Academy of Religion (edited)
language: English
title: Celebration of Awareness
titlecomplete: Celebration of Awareness
genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
ratings_count: 79
publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd