Beyond the Great Transformation, a 'world life'
In the Abraham Rotstein’s “Weekend Notes II”, dated 5 May 1956, the latter reports on the conversation he had with him and addresses, in his remarks, the question of the “trade cycle”: P[olanyi] had had trade cycle theory which later Hayek produced and was then shattered by Keynes. P.’s theory Continue Reading
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
(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]1 : 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
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”1, 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
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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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