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The Thought of Ivan Illich

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Influence of Jacques Alul on Modernity

There's lots of people you know in the 20th century who question modernity and I think especially science and technology that these things can like really deliver on their promises. So do you think is that part of the background for him or is he reading those kinds of characters and responding to them? Yeah great question Jacques Alul is definitely an influence there’s in fact in I think it's 1993 you can find this online he he delivers a tribute to Alul at a at a small conference that was held in Alul's honor late late in his life. He acknowledges Alul as one of his great teachers they were both students of Jacques Maritain in the 1940s so yes

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