[Interpretationandmethods] Polanyi's Interpretive Method

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Hi Larry!

Glad to hear from someone in the social science community who is familiar with Polanyi.? Surprisingly, most Polanyi people are theologians.? I recently delivered a paper on Polanyi's interpretive method at a Polanyi Society meeting in Chicago.? I'm looking for the right journal to have it reviewed for publication.? I prefer a friendly social science journal.? I want more social scientists to know about Polanyi's work.? Anyone can read or download the article, but its still in its pre-reviewed form.? Just go to :
http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/Loyola08/Loy08-conf-sch-6-2.htm


Bill Kelleher



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Larry Chappell
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I have read and admired Polanyi's work for many years. His importance for
work in the social sciences is not as widely recognized as it should be. The
notion of "tacit knowledge" is especially valuable for a theory of
interpretation. Many social scientists commit what Whitehead called "the
fallacy of the perfect dictionary" by assuming that all we know and
understand can be reduced to a series of comprehensive and perspicuous
propositions about political reality. Polanyi is a good counterpoint to that
fallacy.
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