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Meaning (Paperback, New edition)
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Meaning (Paperback, New edition)
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Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning
is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With
the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier
critique of scientific "objectivity" to investigate meaning as
founded upon the imaginative and creative faculties.
Establishing that science is an inherently normative form of
knowledge and that society gives meaning to science instead of
being given the "truth" by science, Polanyi contends here that the
foundation of meaning is the creative imagination. Largely through
metaphorical expression in poetry, art, myth, and religion, the
imagination is used to synthesize the otherwise chaotic and
disparate elements of life. To Polanyi these integrations stand
with those of science as equally valid modes of knowledge. He hopes
this view of the foundation of meaning will restore validity to the
traditional ideas that were undercut by modern science. Polanyi
also outlines the general conditions of a free society that
encourage varied approaches to truth, and includes an illuminating
discussion of how to restore, to modern minds, the "possibility"
for the acceptance of religion.
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