Austrian Period (1919-1933)
Key : “Name” or „Name”: article; Name: book; (Name): draft article; (Name): draft book; 'Name': Speech or Conference; <Name>: Plan; To {Personal Name}: letter
1919 (since August)
World Events | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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Reestablishment of the First Hungarian Republic leaded by Gyula Peidl. | 02.08. | ||
Establishment of the Hungarian Republic with Archduke Joseph August as Regent of Hungary | 07.08. | ||
(Rudolf Steiner's The Threefold Commonwealth) | 12.10. | „Weltanschauungskrise. Zur „Maschinerie der Gemeinsamkeit” von Prof. Foerster“ | |
xx.10•12. | (Worauf es heute ankommt. Eine Erwiderung) [What matters Today. An Answer] | ||
(Über das Wesen der Ost-Europäischen Wirtschaftskrise) | |||
(Korai kereszténység és a kommunizmus Rerefémpéj és Kommüni” / “Ó Rerefémpej és Kommunizurplus) | |||
(Marxismus und geistige Arbeit) |
„Gegen die wissenschaftliche Politik“ / „Behemot“ Sub-Period
Cf. also Fragments of Draft Manuscripts in German (1919-1922)
1920
World Events | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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“He [is] gaining confidence that his manuscript [Gegen die wissenschaftliche Politik] would shortly be publishable.” “He [is] able to spend some months convalescing in the Alpine resort of Semmering and in Reichenau, and his quarters in Vienna [are], at least, 'very comfortable.'”[1] | Cf. Fragments of Draft Manuscripts in German (1919-1922) | ||
07.01. | To Oszkár Jászi | ||
19.01. | To Michael | ||
17.03. | To Michael | ||
20.05. | To Michael | ||
Max Weber's death | 14.06. | ||
02.07. | To Michael | ||
“P. [is] thirty-three years old, wasted from his long illness and very lonely. His outlook [is] deeply influenced by Tolstoi. He [is] like one who looks back on life, not forward it.”[2] He meets Ilona Duczyńska. | Late Autumn | ||
H. G. Wells, The Outline of History. Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | 08.11. | To Cecil ↑ |
1921
World Events | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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Carl Menger's death | 26.02. | ||
O. Jászi hires P. as personal secretary and soon promotes him to the the editorial offices of the Hungarian émigré paper Bécsi Magyar Ujság.[3] | “Hivö és hitetlen politika” [Believing and Unbelieving Politics][4] | ||
12.08. | “Az új orosz politika esélyei” [The possibilities of Russia’s new politics] | ||
H. G. Wells, The Outline of History. (3d ed., revised and rearranged) | xx.09. | To Michael | |
18.09. | “Forradalom és ideológia. Jegyzetek Szabó Ervin hátrahagyott müvéhez” [Revolution and Ideology: Notes on Ervin Szabó’s posthumous Work] | ||
26.10. | To Michael | ||
(Ist Sozialismus ein Weltanschauung?)[5] [Is Socialism a Worldview?] ↑ |
Guild Socialism Sub-Period
1922
1923
World Events | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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18.01. | „Marne-csata a Ruhr-mentén“ [The Battle of Marne along the Ruhr] | ||
Karl Polanyi marries Ilona Duczyńska at Protestant Dorotheer Church.[7] | xx.02. | ||
29.03. | “Gild és állam“ [Guild and State] | ||
Honeymoon on the Baltic Isle of Rügen. Polanyi and Ilona begins to live in an apartment at Vorgartenstrasse, 203, Vienna, on Leopoldstadt District.[8] | 05.04. | “Jézus feltámadása“ [The Resurrection of Jesus] | |
(No special date, maybe later in 1923) Ilona's mother, Hélène Békassy, and a domestic help live with them.[9] | 11.05. | “Van-e elég kenyere Európanak?“ [Does Europe have enough Bread?] | |
21.06. | “A berlini fajvédők“ [The Defenders of Race of Berlin] | ||
(July?) Karoline Hélène (Kari) borns.[10] | 07.07. | “A félelem ellen“ [Against Fear] | |
16.10. | “Háború és béke kérdése Genfben“ [The Question of War and Peace in Geneva] | ||
03.10. | “Fehérek, feketék, barnák“ [Whites, Blacks and Browns] | ||
21.10. | “H.G. Wells, a civilizáció megmentéséről“ [H.G. Wells on salvaging Civilisation] | ||
Jakob Marschak, “Wirtschaftsrechnung und Gemeinwirtschaft” | 30.11. | “A német iparbárók kivándorlása: világtrösztök felé“ [The Captains of German Industry: towards global Trusts] ↑ |
1924
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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Polanyi establishes a private, evening seminar on guild socialism. Hans Zeisel, Aurel Kolnai, Karl Popper and Felix Schafer attend to it. [11] | xx.01. | |
26.02. | To Ludwig von Mises | |
(April?) Polanyi begins to work for the Österreichische Volkswirt.[12] | ||
xx.06. | „Die funktionelle Theorie der Gesellschaft und das Problem der sozialistischen Rechnungslegung“ [The Functional Theory of Society and the Problem of Socialist Accounting] | |
xx.11. | „England und die Wahlen“ [England and the Elections] ↑ |
1925
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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"In 1925-26 he laid down ideas about the objectivations in a treatise which he intended to send to the journal Der Kampf. Whether it ever happened, I do not know. But during this time he talked to me a lot about this subject, because I did my dissertation about it.”[13] | __.01. | „Neue Erwägungen zu unserer Theorie und Praxis“ [] |
xx.04. | „Zur Krise der englischen Arbeiterbewegung“ [] | |
08.06. | “Von der Parteienwahl zur reinen Vertreterwahl” [] | |
xx.07. | „Die deutsche Antwort“ [] | |
xx.08. | „Der Bergauproblem in England“ [] | |
12.09. | „Die neue Internationale“ [] | |
xx.10. | „Der Friede von Locarno“ [] | |
24.12. | Letter to Richard Wank | |
(A társadalomtudomány) [The Social Sciences] | ||
(Das Übersichtsproblem)[14] | ||
(Das Übersichtsproblem, ein Hauptproblem des Sozialismus) ↑ |
1926
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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13.02. | „Die Wirkungen der englischen Kohlensubventionen“ [The Effects of the British Coal Subsidies] | |
xx.03. | „Der Rückfall“ [The Relapse] | |
“Karl returned to further developing his Theorem in 1926, after a brief stay in hospital, the second half of April.”[15] | xx.{03-04}. | „Die Bericht der Kohlen-Kommission“ [The report of the Coal Commission] |
xx.05. | „Der englische Generalstreik“ [The English General Strike] | |
xx.05. | „Probleme des englischen Generalstreiks“ [Problem of the English General Strike] | |
18.12. | „Ein Vorschlag zur Wahlreform“ [A proposal for the electoral reform] | |
(Wer ist die Linke?) [Who are the Leftist?] | ||
Review of HERTZ Friedrich, Feindschaft zwischen Kultur und Zivilisation | ||
“Folyóiratok szemléje” [Periodical Observation] ↑ |
Austrian Economics Sub-Period
1927
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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15.01. | „Nochmals 'Ein Vorschlag zur Wahlreform'“ [A proposal for the electoral reform, one more time] | |
12.02. | Aus der Woche | |
xx.03. | 'The goal of Hungarian democracy', to the editor of A Látahár | |
xx.06. | „Die neue Weltlage“ [] | |
xx.xx. | Letter to a comrade | |
((Auszug aus einem Referat) Zur Sozialisierungsfrage) [(Excerpt from a Paper) on the Question of Socialization] | ||
A magyar demokrácia célkitüzéseiröl [About the Goals of Hungarian Democracy] | ||
(Zum Begriff Bedürfnisskalen) [On the concept of Scale of Needs][16] | ||
“Pure Economic Theory”[17] ↑ |
1928
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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xx.01. | Review of L'annuaire de la Société des Nations 1928 | |
xx.02. | „Liberale Wirtschaftsreformen in England“ [Liberal Economic Reforms in England] | |
25.02. | „Liberale Sozialreformer in England“ [Liberal Social Reforms in England] | |
xx.03. | „Italien und Europa“ [Italy and Europe] | |
xx.06. | „Schmalenbach und Liberalismus“ [Schmalenbach and Liberalism] | |
xx.{05-06}. | „Soziale Fragen der Rationalisierung“ [The Social Question of Rationalisation] | |
xx.09. | „Kelloggpakt“ [The Kellog Pact] | |
(Hans Mayer’s Lösung des Zurechnungsproblems) (w/ Felix Schafer) [Hans Mayer's Solution to the Problem of Computation] | ||
“Munkanélküliség a szellemi pátyák köréhen” [] | ||
“Karl Kraus” | ||
“Az Új Középeurópa” [The New Central Europe] | ||
Review of JORDAN Károly, Matematikai Statisztika | ||
(…das Wesen der Kaufkraftwirtschaftlichen Betrachtungsweise…) […the Essence of Purchasing Power Point of View] ↑ |
1929
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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xx.xx | Review of Political Book of 1929 | |
xx.xx | Review of Georg Hahn, Die Konkurrenz | |
xx.06. | “A Galilei Kör mérlege” [The Galilei Circle: a balance sheet] | |
xx.06. | „Labours Sieg“ [The victory of Labour] | |
xx.06. | Review of George Paish, World Economic Suicide | |
xx.08. | „Englisch-amerikanische Flottenparität“ [Anglo-american fleet parity] | |
xx.09. | „MacDonald in Washington“ | |
xx.09. | Review of Völkerbunde und Press | |
07.12. | To Donald Grant | |
Shortly after Christmas, the Macmurrays spend ten days in Vienna with the Grants and the Polanyis[18] | 26-31.12. | |
“P. has a lecture − "Reformietes Bewusstsein” − which he gave on the emergence of reform of consciousness in 1927 or '29. P. gave this lecture to a small group including Kolnyai, Ernst Karl Winter, and Otto Bauer. Winter wanted to build up an anti-Fascist group in Vienna. P. was interested only on his own ideas.”[19] | "Reformietes Bewusstsein” ↑ |
1930
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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xx.01. | „Pax anglo-americana“ | |
xx.09. | „Weltpolitische Unbehagen“ [World Political Discomfort] | |
xx.09.?[20] | „Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre“ [Introduction to the Economy/Economic science] | |
„Zur wirtschaftlichen Neuordnung Europas“ [On the economic reorganization of Europe] ↑ |
1931
Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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xx.03. | „Bewegung in Europa“ [Movement in Europe] | |
xx.09. | „Demokratie und Währung in England“ [Democracy and Currency in England] | |
xx.10. | „Lavals sonderbare Reise“ [Laval's Strange Journey] | |
xx.11. | „MacDonald und die Wirtschaftspolitik“ [MacDonald and the Economic Policy] | |
„Neue Schutzzollwelle“ [New Protectionist Wave] | ||
xx.12. | „England auf der Waage“ [England on the Scales] | |
xx.xx | “Austria and Free Trade” ↑ |
Young-Marxo-Christian anti-Fascist Sub-Period
1932
World Events | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
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xx.01. | „Einer Reparationslösung entgegen“ [Towards a reparation solution] | ||
xx.06. | „Gleichberechtigung und Völkerbund“ [Equality and the League of Nations] | ||
xx.07. | „Kritik an Lausanne“ [Criticism of Lausanne] | ||
xx.10. | „Gleichberechtigung und die deutsche Linke“ [Equality and the German Left] | ||
21.11. | To Michael | ||
xx.12. | „Die verschobene Weltwirtschaftskonferenz“ [The postponed World Economic Conference] | ||
xx.12. | „Wirtschaft und Demokratie“ [Economy and Democracy] ↑ |
1933
Notes and References
- ↑ Dale 2016, 64.
- ↑ Duczyńska 1970, 29/12, 50.
- ↑ Dale 2016, 65; See also Duczyńska 1970, 29/12, 51. The BMU, “funded, to his discomfiture, by the Czech liberal leader Eduard Beneš, was the foremost publishing organ of Hungarian exiles and emigrés. Its ambit was global, but its most important achievement was to provide regular reports on what it termed “Magyar fascism” [Dale 2016, 65]
- ↑ I follow here Gareth Dale and Adam Fabry [Polanyi 2016, 99], and not 01/40 that dates this text in ”1928”
- ↑ „Über die Freiheit“ in POLANYI 2005
- ↑ Cf. A. Rotstein, “Week-end notes” XIX, 32.
- ↑ Dale 2016, 67.
- ↑ Dale 2016, 67.
- ↑ Dale 2016, 69.
- ↑ Dale 2016, 68.
- ↑ Dale 2016, 71. Gareth Dale writes that Peter Drucker attended the seminar but the latter wrote in 1978, that he met Polanyi in November 1927; See also Schafer 1964; Schafer 1973-1974.
- ↑ Dale 2016, 70
- ↑ Schafer 1964, 15.
- ↑ The date is almost arbitrary, but I believe it's after „Sozialistische Rechnungslegung“ -- Santiago Pinault
- ↑ Schafer 1964-1966, 44; “Vorgartenstrasse, 203” [2000], 337
- ↑ The date is not sure. Must be after 1923, since the text is about Carl Menger's 2d edition of the Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre . -- Santiago Pinault
- ↑ Estimated date; the KPA says 1924-1927…
- ↑ COSTELLO J. E., [2002] John Macmurray. A BIography, Floris Books, 200-201.
- ↑ Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Note XIX, 31.
- ↑ It's a lesson, so must be on the beginning of the school year.
- ↑ See. Schafer 1964, 63