Fragments of Draft Manuscripts in German (1919-1922)
Text(s) Polanyi wanted to write
Name | English Name | Quoted in |
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“Gegen die wissenschaftliche Politik” | Against the Scientific Politic | Dale 2016a, 64: “He was gaining confidence that his manuscript would shortly be publishable, he was able to spend some months convalescing in the Alpine resort of Semmering and in Reichenau, and his quarters in Vienna were, at least, 'very comfortable'.” |
“Behemoth” | Baum 1996, 20-24; Gomez 2008, §13: “'The Behemoth' [01/53, 02/01, 02/02 and 02/03] was written in German by Polanyi while he was in frail health and still recovering from the horrors of the Russian front. It is a journey into the discovery of the origins of human suffering, a theme that permeated his discourse on the ethical foundations of human thought and action”. The common source of both authors must be the 1987 Marguerite Mendell and Kari Polanyi-Levitt article, "Karl Polanyi: His life and Time„: “In an unpublished 200 page manuscript written at that time, which he called "Behemoth", Polanyi dedicated himself to the discovery of the origins of the human suffering he so vividly described in "The Calling of Our Generation".” (p. 21) | |
„Die Lehre vom Lebensweg" | The science of (choosing his) way of life | Baum 1996, 23: “In a small, incomplete manuscript from the same period, entitled "Die Lehre vom Lebensweg," Polanyi explored his own ethical understanding of human existence.” |
Fragments Overview
Thematics Overview
Concept | Archives | Comments |
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Doppelte Moral | 02/01, 02/03 | |
“gesellschaftliche Sein” | Das Übersichtsproblem, ein Hauptproblem des Sozialismus, Ist Sozialismus eine Weltanschauung?, Sein und Denken [02/01] | + Marx and Hegel |
Persönlichkeit | Wer ist die Linke?, Ist Sozialismus eine Weltanschauung?, The Essence of Fascism |