Dale, Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left

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DALE Gareth, Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left, New York, Columbia Univ. Press, 400 p.
Reference: Dale 2016a

In the East-West Salon

[32] In 1910 he resigned the presidency of the Galileo Circle and took on the leadership of the Committee for Workers’ Education. He was inducted into a Freemason’s lodge (where he found himself “well liked”) and joined the leading circles of the Radical Bourgeois Party.

Bearing the Cross of War

Triumph and tragedy of Red Vienna

Challenges and Responses

The cataclysm and its Origins

[156] In spring 1941 he had secured a Rockefeller Fellowship that would enable him to be employed at Bennington for two years, formally as a resident lecturer but without teaching responsibilities.

“Injustices and Inhumanities”

[205] It was a major disappointment when Ford cut the flow of funds in 1958 and the Rockefeller Foundation turned down a grant bid, but Polanyi was able to keep the seminar alive with assistance from other bodies.

The Precariousness of Existence

Epilogue: A Lost World of Socialism