Tag Archives: Ivan Illich

Feyerabend’s “Science as Art” and Aloïs Riegl: On Progress in Science and Art

Babich, Progress in Science and Art Borderless Philosophy 8 (2025): 1-31. 1. Introduction: Progress and Decline, Evolution and the Primitive The idea of “decadent art” is well-known from its use against cultural elements often associated with Jewish artists during the Nazi era. But, as Paul Feyerabend (1924- 1994) points out, the idea of Verfall wasContinue reading “Feyerabend’s “Science as Art” and Aloïs Riegl: On Progress in Science and Art”

Hermeneutics, Love, and Education: Reading Gadamer, Nietzsche, and Illich

Being an excerpt of a text currently available behind a paywall Go get yourself a culture, only then will you find out what philosophy can and will do. — Nietzsche Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) wrote about prejudice and the importance of critique, that is: being oneself exposed, personally, to challenge. For Gadamer this explicitly included anContinue reading “Hermeneutics, Love, and Education: Reading Gadamer, Nietzsche, and Illich”

Anti-Conviviality

Ivan Illich as Nature Activist Given the controversial ‘Extinction Rebellion,’ it might seem reasonable to suppose that Ivan Illich might have supported this movement, given his criticism of the education industry along with the missionary industry, today that would include nonprofit and humanitarian NGOs, along with criticizing the medical industry, the water (treatment and recycling)Continue reading “Anti-Conviviality”