Reading Ivan Illich / Lee Hoinacki -- The challenges of this collection / Carl Mitcham -- Ivan Illich as we knew him in the 1950s / Joseph P. Fitzpatrick -- The adventures of publishing Ivan Illich / Marion Boyars -- On Ivan Illich and his friends / John L. McKnight -- Ivan Illich at the Wissenschaftskolleg / Gesine Bottomley -- In the shadow of Jerome / Domenico Farias -- Economy, subsistence, and psychological inquiry / Robert Kugelmann -- ABC redux : or literacy matters. And how! / Barry Sanders -- Ivan Illich's concept of "rests" : glimpses of a world past / David B. Schwartz --Hospitality cannot be a challenge / Alfons Garrigós -- The mess we're in : how Ivan Illich revealed to me that the American dream is actually a nightmare / Aaron Falbel -- A letter on studying with Master Illich / Madhu Suri Prakash -- From the economy to friendship : my years studying Ivan Illich / Eugene J. Burkart -- Don Quixote in the contemporary global tragicomedy / Alastair Hulbert -- Energy and the mystery of iniquity / Jean Robert -- Detour and sacrifice : Ivan Illich and René Girard / Jean-Piere Dupuy -- Ivan Illich's break with the past / Pieter Tijmes -- The quest for past somatics / Barbara Duden -- The cultivation of conspiracy / Ivan Illich.