[Interpretationandmethods] The Polanyi Family.

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Hi All! 
Laleh wrote:
Actually, I think that is “Karl” Polanyi in Blyth (as well as Blaney and 
Inayatullah), not  Michael! 
Thanks for that clarification.  I thought that was the problem, but I  haven’
t had the time to check it out.  Karl gets much more attention than his 
brother.   
PTJ is right. They had different political leanings.  They were both steeped 
in the Socialist  philosophy of the early 20th Century.  They grew up in 
Hungary.  Karl wrote as a Socialist, but Michael  was so repulsed by Stalinism that 
he refused to give Socialism any credit.  He wrote a book favoring market  
capitalism (The Logic of Liberty).  He was very strong on what could be called 
First Amendment freedoms.  He was a gradualist for socio-economic  reforms 
(like a 1960’s liberal Republican).     
Michael was a doctor, turned  chemist, turned philosopher.  His son, John, 
won a Nobel Prize for  chemistry. 
Polanyi’s name is widely associated with his theory of “tacit knowledge,”  
although that theory is not widely understood.  It is really just a part of his 
general  theory of human rationality.  I am  preparing a message about that 
in response to Larry’s post. 
Bill Kelleher



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