[Interpretationandmethods] Polanyi's Interpretive Method

[Laleh Khalili]

Actually, I think that is *Karl* Polanyi in Blyth (as well as Blaney and 
Inayatullah), not Michael! :)

Laleh

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Charlotte Epstein wrote:

> I don't think that's completely fair to say that Polyani has been
> ignored in political science: I recommend Mark Blyth's Great
> Transformations (2002), which revolves centrally around it. Or, in IR,
> Blaney and Inayatullah's International Relations and the Problem of
> Difference (2004)  - which has a key chapter on it.
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> Hi Larry!
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> 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.
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> <http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/Loyola08/Loy08-conf-sch-6-2
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> Bill Kelleher
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> You wrote:
> Larry Chappell
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> I have read and admired Polanyi's work for many years. His importance
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> 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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