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Convivium, Other Journals and Links

Convivium

Convivium: The United Kingdom Review of Post-Critical Thought was the publication of the UK-centered group—also named “Convivium”—interested in the thought of Michael Polanyi .

Convivium was the counterpart to the North American scholarly group that eventually became the Polanyi Society. Both the United Kingdom and the North American Polanyi groups formed and began sponsoring meetings and publishing newsletters and eventually mini-journals in the seventies. These groups cooperated and frequently exchanged reviews, short articles and notices included in their publications. Early publications preserved in the Tradition and Discovery archives often identify some material as published previously in Convivium and the same is true of Convivium issues.

However not all of the interesting Convivium material commenting on Polanyi’s thought was republished. There were 25 issues of Convivium published between 1975 and 1987. Retirements and other complications eventually led to the demise of Convivium as an independent publication. 

Former Convivium subscribers often thereafter subscribed to and submitted material for publication in what became Tradition and Discovery. In 1994-95, the UK Polanyi goup officially merged with the Polanyi Society and all those on the Convivium mailing list were added to the Polanyi Society mailing list.

Below are links to Convivium issues identified by number and date of publication. Early issues are quite brief but later issues are approximately 25 pages long. All issues were produced on a typewriter and then duplicated so the quality of these digitized copies is not always good. Some copies here have underlining and other marks in pen. Copies of Convivium 5 and 10 are missing from this collection. If you have information about these missing issues or questions about Convivium contact Phil Mullins (mullins@missouriwestern.edu).

Thanks to Kristina Schulz, Assistant University Archivist, University of Dayton Library, and Maben W. Poirer for helping locate issues of Convivium.

Other Journals with Special Interest in the Thought of Michael Polanyi

In addition to Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, there are two other journals with special interest in the thought of Michael Polanyi.

Polanyiana, The Periodical of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association, as its title suggests, is published by the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association (MPLPA), centered in Hungary, Polanyi’s country of origin. Polanyiana began publication in 1992; the MPLPA publishes some numbers in Hungarian and some in English.

Contact Polanyiana through Gábor István Bíró, Editor, at biro.gabor.istvan@gmail.com. The Library of Congress serials number for Polanyiana is ISSN 1215-6582. General information about Polanyiana is at https://polanyiana.org/polanyiana). The list of volumes of Polanyiana with links to each issue is at https://polanyiana.org/volumes).

Appraisal: The Journal of the British Personalist Forum was launched in 1996. For several years, it was published twice a year (with four issues constituting one volume) but it now is published on an irregular schedule. Appraisal takes a special but not an exclusive interest in Michael Polanyi; issues include articles on a variety of thinkers regarded as Personalists. Abigail Klassen (abigail.klassen@gmail.com) is currently the editor of Appraisal and invites inquiries from prospective authors. The Appraisal website (https://www.britishpersonalistforum.org.uk) makes all old issues of the journal available and also has membership and publication information. The Library of Congress serials number for Appraisal is ISSN 1358-3336.

Other Journals with Special Issues or Sections on Michael Polanyi

Several academic journals have devoted special issues or special sections of an issue to one or another aspect of Michael Polanyi’s thought.

The list below identifies some of these journals and the authors and article titles included in the special issue or special section. Anyone who has access to interlibrary loan service should be able to retrieve any article of interest with the information provided.

Access to Interlibrary Loan Service

Scholars and students who do not have access to interlibrary loan service and wish to acquire materials (for non-commercial use) are invited to direct inquiries to webmaster@polanyisociety.org.

The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol.8, no.3, 1977

John Brennan, “Polanyi’s Transcendence of the Distinction between Objectivity and Subjectivity as Applied to the Philosophy of Science,” 141-152.

R. J. Brownhill, “Freedom and Authority: The Political Philosophy of Michael Polanyi,” 143-163.

Marjorie Grene, “Tacit Knowing: Grounds for a Revolution in Philosophy,” 164-171.

Rom Harre, “The Structure of Tacit Knowledge,” 172-177.

Harry Prosch, “Biology and Behaviorism in Polanyi,” 178-191.

William T. Scott, “Commitment: A Polanyian View,” 192-206.

Pretext, Vol.2, nos.1-2, 1981

Sam Watson, “Breakfast in the Tacit Tradition,” 9-32.

James A. Reither, “Some Ideas of Michael Polanyi and Some Implications for Teaching Writing,” 33-44.

Diane Sautter, “Tacit and Explicit Tulips,” 45-62.

Rembert Herbert, “Into the Tacit Dimension: Reflections on Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge,” 63-74.

Robin Hodgkin, “Making Sense and the Means for Doing So,” 75-90.

William E. Coding, “Polanyi and Peak: A Short Semantic Symphony,” 91-114.

Robert L. Scott, ” The Tacit Dimension and Rhetoric: What It Means To Be Persuading and Persuaded,” 115-126.

James L. Wiser, “Michael Polanyi and the Problem of Toleration,” 127-136.

Loyal D. Rue, “Reconstructing the Conditions for Cultural Coherence,” 137-150.

Dale W. Cannon, “The ‘Primitive’/’Civilized’ Opposition and the Modern Notions of Objectivity: A Linkage,” 151-172.

William H. Poteat, “Further Polanyian Meditations,” 173-187.

Harry Prosch, “Polanyi and Rhetoric,” 189-196.

The Personalist Forum, Vol. 9, no.2, 1993

David Rutledge, “Introduction,” 63-6.

Ronald Hall, “Critical and Postcritical Objectivity,” 67-80.

Walter Gulick, “An Unlikely Synthesis: What Kant Can Contribute to a Polanyian Theory of Selfhood,” 81-108.

Phil Mullins, “Narrative, Interpretation, and Persuasion: Polanyian Notes on Selfhood,” 109-132.

James W. Stines, “W. H. Poteat, A Philosophical Daybook: Post-Critical Investigations,” 133-37.

Richard Gelwick, “Robert M. Pirsig, Lila. An Inquiry into Morals,” 138-41.

James C. Edwards, “Ronald L. Hall, Word and Spirit: A Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern Age,” 142-46.

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol.33, no.3, 2011

Walter B. Mead, “A Symposium on the Relevance of Michael Polanyi’s Insights to a Reformulated Understanding of Science,Technology, and Society,” 155-159.

Murray Jardine, “Sight, Sound, and Knowledge: Michael Polanyi’s Epistemology as an Attempt to Redress the Sensory Imbalance in Modern Western Thought,” 160-171.

Struan Jacobs, “C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures: Michael Polanyi’s Response and Context,” 172-178.

Charles Lowney, “Rethinking the Machine Metaphor Since Descartes: On the Irreducibility of Bodies, Minds, and Meanings,” 179-192.

Terence Kennedy, “From Paradigms to Paideia: Thomas S. Kuhn and Michael Polanyi in Conversation,” 193-199.

Richard Henry Schmitt, “Models, Their Application, and Scientific Anticipation: Ludwig Boltzmann’s Work as Tacit Knowing,” 200-205.

Mark T. Mitchell, “Polanyi and the Role of Tradition in Scientific Inquiry,” 206-211.

Maben Walter Poirier, “Michael Polanyi and the Social Sciences,” 212-224.

Robert Doede, “Technologies and Species Transitions: Polanyi, on a Path to Posthumanity?” 225-235.

James Clement van Pelt, “Toward a Polanyian Critique of Technology: Attending From the Indwelling of Tools to the Course of Technological Civilization,” 236-246.

Perspectives on Political Science: Symposium on the Political Thought of Michael Polanyi, Vol.42, no.3, 2013

Phil Mullins, “Michael Polanyi’s Thought and Political Philosophy: An Introduction,” 152-153.

Jon Fennell, “On Authority and Political Destination: Michael Polanyi and the Threshold of Postmodernism,” 154-161.

Phil Mullins, “Michael Polanyi’s Early Liberal Vision: Society as a Network of Dynamic Orders Reliant on Public Liberty,” 162-171.

Walter B. Mead, “Michael Polanyi’s Social/Political Order: Design for a Society of Explorers,” 172-177.

Murray Jardine, “Michael Polanyi’s Response to the Crisis of Modernity and Its Relation to Recent Developments in Theology,” 178-187.

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