Meaning
ISBN-13:
9780226672946
ISBN-10:
0226672948
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch
Publication date:
1976
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
260 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780226672946
ISBN-10:
0226672948
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch
Publication date:
1976
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
260 pages
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Meaning (ISBN-13: 9780226672946 and ISBN-10: 0226672948), written by authors
Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch, was published by University of Chicago Press in 1976.
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Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier critique of scientific "objectivity" to investigate meaning as founded upon the imaginative and creative faculties. Establishing that science is an inherently normative form of knowledge and that society gives meaning to science instead of being given the "truth" by science, Polanyi contends here that the foundation of meaning is the creative imagination. Largely through metaphorical expression in poetry, art, myth, and religion, the imagination is used to synthesize the otherwise chaotic and disparate elements of life. To Polanyi these integrations stand with those of science as equally valid modes of knowledge. He hopes this view of the foundation of meaning will restore validity to the traditional ideas that were undercut by modern science. Polanyi also outlines the general conditions of a free society that encourage varied approaches to truth, and includes an illuminating discussion of how to restore, to modern minds, the "possibility" for the acceptance of religion.
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