Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

Small stain on first leaf. A very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 428 pp.

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In this work the distinguished physical chemist and philosopher, Michael Polanyi, demonstrates that the scientist's personal participation in his knowledge, in both its discovery and its validation, is an indispensable part of science itself. Even in the exact sciences, "knowing" is an art, of which the skill of the knower, guided by his personal commitment and his passionate sense of increasing contact with reality, is a logically necessary part. In the biological and social sciences this becomes even more evident.

The tendency to make knowledge impersonal in our culture has split fact from value, science from humanity. Polanyi wishes to substitute for the objective, impersonal ideal of scientific detachment an alternative ideal which gives attention to the personal involvement of the knower in all acts of understanding. His book should help to restore science to its rightful place in an integrated culture, as part of the whole person's continuing endeavor to make sense of the totality of his experience. In honor of this work and his The Study of Man Polanyi was presented with the Lecomte de Nouy Award for 1959.

Product Info

ISBN: 0226672883

ISBN-13: 9780226672885

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Year: 1974

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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