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[version: 2025-02-12] This issue is in progress. Articles and book reviews will be added when available.

We open the first round of contributions to Volume 51 of Tradition & Discovery with two contributions which encourage us to approach Polanyi’s thought again with fresh eyes and a different take.

• First is Jon Fennell’s “Everyone a Sailor: Oakeshott’s Affinity for the Polanyian Vision of Human Activity” – an attempt to plumb deeper, unrecognized resonances between M.P. and the famous British skeptic, conservative, and Hobbes commentator, Michael Oakeshott.
• Second is a review E. San Juan Jr.’s Peirce’s Pragmaticism: A Radical Perspective by new TAD contributor Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe. Pérez-Ilzarbe’s review invites us to think of Pierce’s work a bit differently – from the direction of the concerns of the New Left and social activism.

With Volume 51, Tradition & Discovery’s seriatim publishing also moves to a new format, which we hope will improve its accessibility, its visibility on the Web to search engines and academic institutions, and the overall efficiency of publication. Each article of the 3 initial “tranches” of the volume will be published in HTML and a simplified PDF format, with the final complete volume being packaged and designed in a manner consistent with our previous volumes

Jon Fennell (jfennell@hillsdale.edu) is professor emeritus at Hillsdale College. He is the author of numerous studies on Polanyi.

Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe (pilzarbe@unav.es) is Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Navarra (Spain). Her main publications concern late medieval and post-medieval terminism.

Table of Contents

Article

• Jon Fennell – Everyone a Sailor: Oakeshott’s Affinity for the Polanyian Vision of Human Activity
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Book Review

• Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe review of E. San Juan Jr. Peirce’s Pragmaticism: A Radical Perspective
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Table of Contents

I

• Preface to Round 1
• Download pages 1-2: Submissions FAQs
• Download pages 3-18:
  Polanyi on Nihilism, Political Authority, and the Vitiation of Convivialty
  Robert M. Frazier
• Download pages 19-28:
  Learning to be Postcritical: An Interview with Dale Cannon
  Martin Turkis and Dale Cannon
• Download pages 29-42:
  Intersubjective Experience: Comments on Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty
  Ellen Wells Bernal
• Download pages 43-45:
  Mathias Grote, Membranes to Molecular Machines: Active Matter and the Remaking of Life
  Reviewed by Phil Mullins

II

• Preface to Round 2
• Download pages 46-57:
  A Collage of Responses: An Interview with R. Melvin Keiser
  R. Melvin Keiser with Paul Lewis
• Download pages 58-70:
  Experiencing Art as Discovery: A Review Essay
  Stan Scott
• Download pages 71-75:
  American Aesthetics: An Appreciative Response
  Walt Gulick
• Download pages 76-91:
  Reading Polanyi’s Reading: Michael Polanyi’s Book Reviews
  Alessio Tartaro and Phil Mullins

III

• Download page 92:
  A Note on Michael Polanyi and Slouching Towards Utopia
  J. Bradford DeLong
• Download page 93:
  The Participatory Turn in Religious Studies and the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi
  Jacob Sherman and Dale Cannon
• Download pages 94-115:
  Polanyi and the Participatory Turn: Reimagining Religious Studies
  Jacob Sherman
• Download pages 116-121:
  Polanyi and Participatory Knowing: A Response to Jacob Sherman’s “Polanyi and the Participatory Turn: Reimagining Religious Studies”
  Dale Cannon
• Download pages 122-140:
  A Polanyian-Participatory Approach to Comparative Study Of Religion: The Questions Of King Milinda and Anselm’s Proslogion as Two Traditions of Religious Practice
  Dale Cannon
• Download pages 141-148:
  All that Heavenly Glory: A Response to Dale Cannon’s “A Polanyian-Participatory Approach to Comparative Study of Religion”
  Jacob Sherman
• Download pages 149-165:
  Thinking with Michael Polanyi’s Insights: An Interview of Richard Moodey
  Phil Mullins and Richard Moodey
• Download pages 166-171:
  Gábor Bíró (editor). Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought, Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy
  Reviewed by Phil Mullins
• Download pages 172-175:
  Martin Wolf. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
  Reviewed by Erik Migdail