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by Richard Gelwick

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This book offers the first full exploration of the religious, ethical, and social dimensions of Michael Polanyi's philosophy, and its implications for the crisis of modern culture. Michael Polanyi developed a new way of understanding the process of discovering scientific knowledge - a theory which can alter our notions of ourselves and of existence. In 'The Way of Discovery', Richard Gelwick, a former student of the renowned scientist-turned-philosopher, presents us with a comprehensive and documented introduction to Polanyi's theory of knowledge. Michael Polanyi was born in Budapest in 1891. After a distinguished career as a physical chemist, he turned to philosophy, religion, and social sciences, becoming, by the time of his death in 1976, one of the greatest scientist-philosophers of our century. Polanyi maintained that three centuries of belief in scientific detachment had produced a crisis of culture. Working from his own experience as a scientist, and with an insight from Gestalt psychology, Polanyi asserted that objective scientific knowledge is at bottom personal knowledge - that scientists and artists establish meaning in basically the same way. His ideas call for a new way of thinking and pose a new frontier of thought, a new image of humanity

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  • Title The Way of Discovery
  • Author Richard Gelwick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • Publication date 2004-05-12
  • ISBN 9781592446872 / 1592446876
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.34 x 0.47 in (21.59 x 13.56 x 1.19 cm)
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  • Category Philosophy

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