Arthur Koestler, E M Forster; J B S Haldane; Michael Polanyi, et al

The Challenge of Our Time a Series of Essays

London, Percival Marshall, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. The 'challenge' being the fundamental issues "which the harnessing of atomic power have thrown into firm relief". 13 essays by leading commentators in VG, clean and bright order throughout. Smart yellow cloth with light shelfwear only. VG clipped d/j, lightly worn to edges. 8vo. 78pp . Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007593

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: History & Politics

Polanyi,Michael.

La conoscenza personale. Verso una filosofia post-critica.

A cura di E.Riverso. Milano, 1990, Rusconi Coll.Problemi attuali. Filosof cm.13,5x21, pp.624, brossura copertina figurata.

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Book number: 57839

Catalogue: Filosofia

POLANYI, M. [MICHAEL] (INITIALED)

The Contempt of Freedom: The Russian Experiment and After

London: Watts and Co, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and initialed by Polanyi to "Sir Ernest and Lady Simon", Sir Ernest Simon, The Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, and his wife, upon front free endpaper. Simon, a British industrialist, politician and public servant, had a long association with the University of Manchester where Polanyi was a professor at the time of publication. Ink stamp reading "University of Manchester Broomcroft Hall" atop front free endpaper and inside back board solidifies this provenance as it was then the residence of the Simons. ix, [1], 116 pages. Includes these essays: The Rights and Duties of Science (1939), Collectivist Planning (1940), Soviet Economics - Fact and Theory (1935), and Truth and Propaganda (1936). "In those years the ideas of liberty... were left almost uncultivated." - from Preface. Minimal faint pencil markings to contents. Average wear and some fading to publisher's pale green cloth which is sunned at spine. Binding intact. Heavy wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Today, the thoughts of the author, a scientist and philosopher who lived from 1891 to 1976, are faithfully upheld by a society named in his honour. Hazlitt p.132.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; The Contempt of Freedom: The Russian Experiment and After Communism Propaganda Stalin Russia Stalinism Sir Ernest and Lady Simon", Sir Ernest Simon, The Lord Simon of Wythenshawe University of Manchester Broomcroft Hall Home; Signed by Author(s). Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 767h2125

Keywords: : " Politics History

Polanyi, Michael

Knowing and being: essays

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 1969; London : Routledge and Kegan Paul; 246pp.; Corners dust jacket slightly worn; spine slightly discoloured. -- Conditie: Goed; Original hardcover, dust jacket, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0710064446, ISBN13: 9780710064448

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Book number: 348476-VC41

Catalogue: Wetenschap/Filosofie

Keywords: Filosofie

Polanyi, Michael

The magic of Marxism and The next stage of History.

Didsbury, The Committee on Science and Freedom, 1956. stapled, 23 cm, 24 pp. A bit rusty. Cond.: goed / good.

Bij tij en ontij . . . .Professional seller

Book number: 43526

Catalogue: Filosofie - Philosophy

Polanyi, Michael and Harry Prosch

Meaning

Chicago and London, University of Chicago Presss, 1975. 1st Edition, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 0226672956. 246 pages. Very good except that spine is sun faded. Good.

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Book number: 12203

Catalogue: miscel

Keywords: 0226672956

POLANYI, MICHAEL

Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1962, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). leather. Used, Leatherbound hardcover in good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition for its age. The jacket is marked and discoloured, especially the spine. Glue residue evident on the inner flaps, which has transferred to the endpapers. The jacket edges are nicked and torn, mainly at the spine ends. The page block is tanned, with an ink blot on the page block face, which has leached on to some of the pages. Certain pages are creased at the upper edge, and there is a mark on page 14. Previous owner's name penned to the front pastedown, and there is minor pencil marginalia throughout. LW. Good/Acceptable.

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Book number: 535086

Catalogue: Philosophy & Ethics

Michael Polanyi

Personal Knowledge Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Third impression of Polanyi's challenge to the established view of the philosophy of science. All in VG internal order, clean and bright throughout. No inscriptions. Light wear only to smart green boards with bright gilt titling to spine. G- unclipped d/j, worn to edges, toned to spine, with loss at foot of spine and to top of rear panel. 8vo. xiv, 428pp . Very Good/Good.

Dodman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 107121

Catalogue: Philosophy

POLANYI, MICHAEL

Personal Knowledge - Towards A Post-Critical Philosophy

United States, The University Of Chicago Press. 2015. (ISBN: 9780226232621) Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Card covers in clean, tidy condition, slight crease to one corner. Very Good.

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Book number: 080004

Keywords: 9780226232621

Polanyi, Michael (committee chairman)

Science and Freedom (A Bulletin of the Committee on Science and Freedom, No. 6)

Manchester: J.B. Foy, 1956. Paper bound in green wrappers, No. 6 of this Bulletin, 48pp. A tight, unmarked, very good or better copy. Includes: Academic Freedom in the USA by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Glenn Morrow; The Disappearance of Professor Galindez by Manuel de Irujo; Self-Government in Australian Universities by Geoffrey Sawer; Co-Existence with Soviet Historians by Walther Hofer; and Kruschev and The 'Thaw' by Georg von Rauch. 80 grams, so qualifies for reduced postage.

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Book number: 23018

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science Freedom Polanyi; Academic Freedom United States; Self-Government Australian Universities; Co-Existence Soviet Historians; Disappearance Professor Galindez

Polanyi, Michael (Ed.)

Science and fredom. Bulletin Nr. 9., Apartheid. The threat to South Africa’s Universities.,

Polanyi, Manchester 1957, Obr., 59s., in gutem Zustand [SD230]., , Weight appr./Gewicht ca. 400.

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Book number: 34202

Catalogue: Varia

Michael Polanyi

The Study of Man

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1960. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 102p. Ex-library hardcover book in original cloth. Label on spine; stamps on edges, endpapers, and title page; card pocket in back. Otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. The Lindsay Memorial Lectures given at the University College of North Staffordshire, 1958. Fair .

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Book number: 316267

Catalogue: Philosophy