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Lee
Hoinacki
Biographie/Bibliographie/Kontakt
I
was born in Lincoln,
Illinois, the only town
named for Abraham Lincoln
before he became famous.
In 1946, at the age
of eighteen, I joined
the United States Marine
Corps, partly to "see
the world." They
sent me to China where
I experienced what anthropologists
call "culture shock,"
and this marked me for
life.
In
college I read Thomas
Merton's Seven Storey
Mountain shortly after
it was published. This
was the first of several
books that have strongly
affected me, perhaps
acting as catalysts
leading to major changes
in my life.
I
entered the Dominican
Order in 1951, and in
1959 was assigned to
work as a priest in
a parish on the upper
east side of Manhattan.
In
1960, I went to Puerto
Rico to learn Spanish,
and met Ivan Illich,
who directed the language
school. Two years later,
I was sent to Chile,
and four years later
to Mexico where I joined
Illich in his institute
(Cuernavaca).
I
returned to the United
States in 1967, married,
and entered graduate
school (UCLA). Completing
the degree, I worked
in Venezuela, and then
in an experimental university,
Sangamon State, in Illinois.
After receiving tenure,
I quit to take up farming,
trying to see how far
we (wife, two children
and myself) could move
outside the economist/monetarist
structure of society.
In the meantime, I continued
to collaborate with
Illich.
During
the last thirty years,
I have attempted to
frame certain questions.
For example:
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Does the concept, "technological
society," have
any explanatory value?
- Are there modern forms
of moving toward subsistence?
- Does manual work offer
rewards never suspected
by Greek thinkers (philosophers)?
- What are the sources
of elaborating a critical
view of contemporary
society?
I
have explored these
and other questions
through study and actual
immersion, that is,
hand labor. The questions
are also discussed in
two books, El Camino:
Walking to Santiago
de Compostela, and Stumbling
Toward Justice.
Currently
I am engaged in searching
for an extra-temporal
mode of looking at the
questions that have
bothered me since 1946.
From a temporal perspective,
this means doxologic
speech and action.
Kontakt
lhoinacki@yahoo.com
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