PHILOSOPHER

Ivan Illich

1926 - 2002

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Ivan Dominic Illich ( iv-AHN IL-itch; German: [ˈiːvan ˈɪlɪtʃ]; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that constrains learning to narrow situations in a fairly short period of the human lifespan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Illich has received more than 1,018,416 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ivan Illich is the 241st most popular philosopher (up from 242nd in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Austria (up from 131st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Philosopher.

Ivan Illich is most famous for his book, Deschooling Society. In this book, he argues that schools are not the best way to educate people, and that they actually do more harm than good.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ivan Illich ranks 241 out of 1,267. Before him are Cleanthes, Giorgio Agamben, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Chilon of Sparta, Apollodorus of Athens, and Milarepa. After him are Ernst Bloch, Orosius, Michael Psellos, Theano, Iamblichus, and Miskawayh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ivan Illich ranks 28. Before him are Hugh Hefner, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Paul Bocuse, Thích Nhất Hạnh, and Donald A. Glaser. After him are Leopoldo Galtieri, George Habash, John Coltrane, Beji Caid Essebsi, Allen Ginsberg, and Tsung-Dao Lee. Among people deceased in 2002, Ivan Illich ranks 20. Before him are Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Traudl Junge, Chuck Jones, James Coburn, and Niki de Saint Phalle. After him are Linda Lovelace, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Fritz Walter, Abu Nidal, Alexander Prokhorov, and Camilo José Cela.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ivan Illich ranks 121 out of 1,424. Before him are Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (1554), Hans Asperger (1906), Maria Josepha of Austria (1699), Nikola IV Zrinski (1508), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865). After him are Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633), Helmut Berger (1944), Ernest, Duke of Austria (1377), Gustav Meyrink (1868), Georg Trakl (1887), and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Austria

Among philosophers born in Austria, Ivan Illich ranks 6. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Karl Popper (1902), Martin Buber (1878), Josef Breuer (1842), and Paul Feyerabend (1924). After him are Otto Weininger (1880), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), André Gorz (1923), and Jean Améry (1912).

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