Beyond the Great Transformation, a 'world life'
In his book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber quotes an article by a certain Rosemary Harris, from 1972, on “The History of Trade at Ikom, Eastern Nigeria”, published in the review Africa: journal of the International African Institute [vol. 42 (2) : 122-139]. Given that Rosemary Arnold was Continue Reading
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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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
Karl Polanyi’s version [1945] We invoked what we believed to be the three constitutive facts in the consciousness of Western man: knowledge of death, knowledge of freedom, knowledge of society. The first, according to Jewish legend, was revealed in the Old Testament story. The second was revealed through the discovery Continue Reading
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After I have recognized that the archive of the Karl Polanyi Archives [KPA] 46/13 has been written by Karl Polanyi and not by his brother Michael, one has to wonder why Polanyi was interested in what he calls ‘Medicine’ in the first page of the archive KPA 02/11. One can Continue Reading
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By comparing of Karl Polanyi’s notebook which is in the archive 07/08, 183-254, and the one that is on 46/13, one realizes they are identical. Identical first of all materially, since we recognize the same type of notebook cover, as well as the same lines on the sheets of paper: Moreover, Continue Reading
In the archives Box 59, Folder 02, 58, there is a reference to Hegel at the back of a sheet of paper, maybe a fragment of a letter, without date, in Hungarian, with a writing hard to read. This folder contains letters sent by Karl Polanyi to his daughter, but Continue Reading