Karl Polanyi : the Hungarian writings / translated by Adam Fabry ; edited and introduced by Gareth Dale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964, author.

Contributor:

Fabry, Adam, translator.

Dale, Gareth, editor.

Series:

New dynamics of innovation and competition.

New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964--Correspondence.

Polanyi, Karl.

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Philosophy, Modern.

World politics--1900-1945.

World politics.

Hungary--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

Translated from the Hungarian.

Summary:

When Karl Polanyi, in a letter of 1934, gave an account of 'the inner development' of his thought, he divided it into two periods. The first was his early life in Hungary, until 1919, the second was the fifteen years that followed, in Viennese exile. This book begins with a survey of Karl Polanyi's early life, and a summary overview of his engagement in emigre politics during his spells in Austria, Britain and North America. He became a central figure in its radical counter-culture, the members of which were to exert an influence upon twentieth-century thought. Polanyi's practical activities initially focused upon the Galilei Circle, a freemason-funded organisation of students and young intellectuals. The first part of the book talks about how ritual and superstition encompassed his everyday life. It discusses Mach's examination of the ideas concerning the so-called 'bodily' and 'spiritual' worlds; explaining why they are as they are, and elaborating useful concepts and rules. The next part explains history: the capitalist system will turn socialism into a state religion, just as the Roman Empire took over Christianity. Karl Kautsky's latest work presents a poignant picture of the disorderly retreat of Marxist socialism. The book looks at the Crossman intervention that is expected to weaken Winston Churchill's intellectual influence upon British foreign policy, and thereby hopefully open the way towards a better understanding, around the world, of the new, socialist Britain. Representative samples of his correspondence from these three periods are included in the final part of this book.

Contents:

Cover

Karl Polanyi The Hungarian writings

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Gareth Dale

Part I: Religion, metaphysics and ethics

Culture - pseudo-culture

Preface to Ernst Mach's The Analysis of Sensations

Credo and credulity

On the destructive turn

Speech on the meaning of conviction

A lesson learned

The calling of our generation

Oration to the youth of the Galilei Circle

The resurrection of Jesus

Part II: Political ideas and ideologies

The crisis of our ideologies

The test of socialism

Law and violence

Civil war

Believing and unbelieving politics

The constitution of socialist Britain

H. G. Wells, the socialist

Karl Kautsky and democracy

Guild socialism

Guild and state

The historical background of the social revolutionaries

Part III: World politics and philosophy of history

The clowns of world peace

New era

Against fear

The question of war and peace in Geneva

Uncle Polly

The rebirth of democracy

Titanic journalism

H. G. Wells on salvaging civilisation

The defenders of race in Berlin

Whites, blacks and browns

The emergence of the Crossman opposition

Part IV: Hungarian politics

Radical bourgeois politics

Magyar hegemony and the nationalities

Bourgeois radicals, socialists and the established opposition

The programme and goals of radicalism

Radical Party and bourgeois party

Manual and intellectual labour

The Galilei Circle: a balance sheet

Concealed foreign rule and socialist economics

Part V: Correspondence

Letters from Karl Polanyi to:

Georg Lukacs, Budapest, 18 August 1908

Georg Lukacs, Budapest, 9 December 1908

Endre Ady, Budapest, 2 February 1909

Maria Lukacs, Dresden, 25 October 1911

Georg Lukacs, 31 January 1912.

'The goals of Hungarian democracy', letter to the editor of A Láthatár, March 1927

Mihály Károlyi, President of the British-Hungarian Council, London, 6 December 1944

Mihály Károlyi, London, 15 April 1946

Oscar Jaszi, London, 15 May 1946

Endre Havas, 25 October 1946

Oscar Jaszi, Pickering, Canada, 27 October 1950

György Heltai, Pickering, Canada, 24 April 1960

György Heltai, 21 May 1960

Istvan Meszaros (from Polanyi and Ilona Duczynska), 30 March 1961

The editors of Új Látóhatár, Pickering, Canada, 24 April 1961

Istvan Meszaros, Pickering, Canada, 24 April 1961

Georg Lukacs, 27 May 1963

Georg Lukacs, 25 January 1964

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Apr 2026).

ISBN:

9781784997915

1784997919

9781784997472

1784997471

OCLC:

987097266