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Title	Kari Levitt and Ilona Duczynska: Research Project - "The Social Philosophy of Karl Polanyi" – Correspondence and applications, 1968-1974
Author	Levitt, Kari Ilona Duczynska
Abstract	Kari Levitt and Ilona Duczynska: Research Project - "The Social Philosophy of Karl Polanyi" – Correspondence and applications, 1968-1974.
Description	File contains applications for a research grant submitted by Kari Levitt and Ilona Polanyi to the Humanities and Social Division, Canada Council, dated June 5, 1972 for a project on "The Social Philosophy of Karl Polanyi: Socialist, Humanist: A Collection of Writings, 1908-1964". The file includes hand-written and typed correspondence between Kari Levitt and her mother Ilona Duczynska, and correspondence with the Canada Council. Also included are application forms, and an application submitted by Ilona Duczynska, jointly with Kari Levitt, to the Canada Council's Explorations Program, dated June 1, 1974, for a project on "The Social Philosophy of Karl Polanyi".
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/10694/458
Date	1968-1974

Archive Contents

Tentative Contents

[105-106]

Part I. Hungary: Early Writings on social Philosophy - The student: movement "Galileo” (1909-1919)

• Crisis of our ideologies (Nézeteink válsága), 1909, reprinted 1919
• On the destructive Mentality, so called (A destruktiv irányról) 1911
• On Commitment (Beszéd a meggyözödésröl) 1913
• Faith or credulity? (Hit és hiszékenység) 1913
• The calling of this generation (A mai nemzedék hitvatása) 1918
• A call to the youth of the “Galilei Circle” - Funeral oration for the poet Endry Ady (Szózat a Galilei Kör ifjúgához) 1919
• Civil War (Polgárháború) 1919

Part II. The Vienna Years (1919-34)

• The Moscow Trial seen against the background of socialist ideas in history (Der Geistgeschichtliche Hintergrund des Moskauer Prozesses) 1922
• Socialist Accountancy (Sozialistische Rechnungslegung) 1922
• A functional theory of society (Die funktionelle Theorie der Gesellschaft und das Problem der sozialistischen Rechnungslegung), an answer to his critics Ludwig Mises and Felix Weil, 1924
• New thoughts on our theory and practice (Neue Erwägungen zu unserer Theorie und Praxis)
• On Freedom (Über die Freiheit) ca. 1927
• The Mechanism od the World Economic Depression (Der Mechanismus der Weltwirtschaftskrise) 1933

Part III. Contributions to the Christian Left movement and other writings (1934-47)

• The Essence of Fascism (1935)
• Draft statement of the Christian Left: (1937-39)
  • On the Writings of the Young Marx
  • On Trotzkyism
  • On the Moscow Trials
• Articles in New Britain: (1937-39)
  • Marxism re-stated
  • Marx on Corporatism
  • and others
• Rousseau, or is a free society possible? (1943)
• Universal Capitalism or Regional Planning? (1946)
• On Belief in economic Determinism (1946)

Part IV. The Columbia Years (1947-53)

• The Economistic Fallacy (1950)
• Letter to his friend Oscar Jászi (1950)
• (Further writings to be listed later)

Part V. Canadian Lebensabend: The Pickering period (1954-1964)

• Hamlet (1954)
• Freedom and Technology (1955)
• Fifty years (Ötven év) (1958)
• The Legacy of the "Galileo Circle" (1958)
• From a letter to Bé de Waard (1958)
• Letter to his brother Michael (Oct. 21, 1959)
• Notes on premature Resignation (April 25, 1960)
• From the Diary of an "Antimarxist” (ca. 1958)
• The good Life in an industrial Society
  

(more Manuscripts of this period to be listed)

• Marginal Notes on the Turning points towards Socialism (Széljegyzetek a szocialista világfordulóhoz) (1960)
• Gailbraith's Farewell to Poverty (1960)
• Aristotle and Gailbraith on Affluence (1960)
• Soviet Thought in Transition (1962)
• Our Homeland's Duty (Hazánk Kötelessege) (1963)