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Karl Polanyi and H.G. Wells

(Simple working notes) Karl Polanyi wrote several texts about H. G. Wells, notably in Vienna in the Journal of Hungarian in Vienna [Bécsi Magyar Újsag] : Original Name Translated Name Date “H. G. Wells az eretnek fáraókról”* H.G. Wells, from the Heretics pharaohs  1922 “Uj Macchiavelli, Kipps és Tono-Bungay” The Continue Reading

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Where does the name “Behemoth” come from, to call the 1919-1922 Polanyi’s manuscripts?

A unique source: Kari Polanyi-Levitt According to Kari Polanyi-Levitt, her father, Karl Polanyi, wanted to call (or called in private) “Behemoth”, his manuscripts written between 1919 and 1922, from the name of a legendary biblical creature. It is, at least, what we can read in Jérôme Maucourant’s article “Polanyi, reader Continue Reading

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Rudolf Steiner and Karl Polanyi

There are only a few writings showing intellectual links between Rudolf Steiner and Karl Polanyi. János Gyurgyák evokes, in his article “Karl Polanyi, Ozkar Jászi, at the Bécsi Magyar Újság”, that between 1921 and 1924, some earlier influences, as Tolstoy, Spengler and Steiner, kept inspiring him and Gyurgyák quotes a letter written Continue Reading

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Correspondence of Ervin Szabó in the KP Archives

How to explain the presence of (a part of) correspondence between Ervin Szabó and Aline Klatschko [AKP 56/02], and between Szabó and Samuel Klatschko [AKP 56/03]? Both correspondences are from years between 1899 and 1901, and letters were typewritten without misprint or crossing-outs, and seem quite ‘recent’ (say, after 1940-1950). Continue Reading

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