Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9781684516810
ISBN-13 : 1684516811
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Book Synopsis Michael Polanyi by : Mark T. Mitchell

Download or read book Michael Polanyi written by Mark T. Mitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his firsthand experience with both the scientific method and political totalitarianism. In this sixth entry in ISI Books’ Library of Modern Thinkers’ series, Mark T. Mitchell reveals how Polanyi came to recognize that the roots of the modern political and spiritual crisis lay in an errant conception of knowledge that served to foreclose any possibility of making meaningful statements about truth, goodness, or beauty. Polanyi’s theory of knowledge as ineluctably personal but also grounded in reality is not merely of historical interest, writes Mitchell, for it proposes an attractive alternative for anyone who would reject both the hubris of modern rationalism and the ultimately nihilistic implications of academic postmodernism.


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