Emotion, reason and tradition : essays on the social, poltical and economic thought of Michael Polanyi

This collection of essays demonstrates the continuing importance of the work of Michael Polanyi for the understanding, not only of the great events of the 20th century, but also of the problems that face us in the 21st century. Polanyi moved liberalism away from a negative, sceptical and rationalist basis towards an acceptance of trust, tradition and faith in transcendent values. His conception of the free society is not one merely of doing as one pleases nor vacuously 'open', but one of individual and communal self-dedication to those values and ideals.These essays, authored by a distinguished international and interdisciplinary panel of invited contributors, examine Polanyi's specific insights in the theory of knowledge, the nature and source of social order and the philosophy of economics and science and draw relevant comparisons between Polanyi and related thinkers such as Popper, Hayek and Mises. This book shows the sources of Polanyi's ideas and his distinctive contribution to philosophy generally, to social and political thought and to economics.

Traditions of science : cross-cultural perspectives : essays in honour of B.V. Subbarayappa

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Bastard moon : essays on Chinese-Australian writing

A timely collection of essays and interviews which starts by exploding the myth that the earliest Chinese immigrants to Australia 'suffered in silence' and ends on a question of crucial relevance to contemporary cultural studies: How do people of various races and cultures, especially intellectuals from Third World cultures, face a globalised future increasingly dominated by Western forces and Western systems of thought?