Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Journal, Vol. 51 (2025) [In Progress]

[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.

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