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Title	Karl Polanyi: Notes on readings, 1934-1946
Author	Polanyi, Karl
Description	File consists of hand-written notes on readings in English, French and German, taken during Karl Polanyi’s stay in England.
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/10694/1040
Date	2013-02-20

Table of Contents

• Notebook XIV
• Notebook XV
• Notebook XVI
• Notebook I, 185-254

Notebook XIV [1935]

[3] England, die Völk_____lt
Zwei … […]

The Law of sudden changes

[4] Kenneth on Jews:<br / The Church has no …

“Church to take public ____ even about so scandalous a thing as Jewish persecution“
Berlin ________: Dr {Dannenbaum} _____ a defence of Jews.

[5] Eric {Fenn}'s memo:
As to the Jewish question. E.F. leaves an important point in the dark: the attitude (or rather: attitudes) within the Confes. Ch. on {Thc} […]

[6] Class antagonism: but the […]

[7] Mannheim on _______
No {solution/situation} is defined …

Behaviorism + central _______ therefore: no change in the human being, no ______ attempted the chaos ____ underneath. A bad mistake!

The opposite = true: Frei_____ to solve the problem with the help of a change in the individual − which however will not last.

Mannheim _____ the separation of _____ & Economics as artificial. This implies _____ criticism of any theory.
Capitalism and _______cy

[10] … Selbstrationalisierung

Zur kritik Mannheims

[13] Max Weber „chance” is the sociological adequate for probability a an ultimate determinant in atomistic physics.

Mannheim investigates into probabilities? But what are the _______ “classical mechanics”? − This is the question. Method of answering it: each „chance“ to be regarded makes this aspect: what is the necessity of its becoming a chance for a definite happening?

[…]

But life ____ may mean different things − especially „good life”.

[15] What is meant by the mental character of historical happening {in our} that?

[16] Mannheim's 3 essays …… sudden change

[21] Sept '35

[37] The primary religions community is the family

Community

Notebook XV [1935]

[68] Theory of fascist Transformation (cont)

[80] à la Hegel +

[81] […] Hegel refuses to accept the …

[87] a relationship of persons.

[91] revealed to us in Jesus Christ. Only if economics bear any reference to this its achieve issue can we be concerned with it as Xtians.

[99] Bryce: The American Commonwealth

[131] Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) New York Vanguard Press 1927

[154] Things to check:
Bergson:

Notebook XVI [1935]

[157] Physiokratic