Papers, 1900-1975 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1900-1975 (inclusive).

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Contains personal and professional correspondence; research notes; manuscripts of lectures, published and unpublished works, speeches, German scientific writings, patents, and poetry; diaries and notebooks; offprints; and memorabilia, including photographs, clippings, a sound recording of an interview with Polanyi, Christmas cards, and invitations. Also includes photocopies of title pages of the 1,500 books from Polanyi's library. Correspondents include Joseph Oldham, Marjorie Grene, Harry Prosch, Arthur Koestler, Karl Mannheim, Edward Shils, and Eugene Wigner. Manuscripts and correspondence reveal the range of Polanyi's philosophical thought and interests in intellectual liberty and the issue of planning in science. Correspondence also illustrates Polanyi's participation in the organization of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Committee on Science and Freedom.

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Committee on science and freedom

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The Committee on Science and Freedom grew out of the Congress for Cultural Freedom held in Hamburg, 1953. From 1954 to 1962 the Committee published the Bulletin which contained articles on the relationship between society and scholarship and on the university as an institution. From the description of Records, 1953-1962. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246358 The Committee on Science and Freedom was an outgrowth of the Congress for Cultura...

Shils, Edward, 1910-1995

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Historian Edward Potts Cheyney taught at the University of Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Drafts of chapters for "Freedom of inquiry and expression, " 1936-1938, 1936-1938, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983

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Congress for Cultural Freedom.

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Prosch, Harry, 1917-....

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Mannheim, Karl, 1893-1947

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Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), an Austro-Hungarian sociologist and historian, born and educated in Hungary, and originator of 'sociology of knowledge' study of science as a social organization, work on problems of leadership and consensus. A member of the Lukacs circle in Hungary, he taught at Heidelberg, 1926-30; Frankfurt am Main,1930-33; and the University of London, 1933-47. His publications include Ideology and Utopia, 1929 and Freedom, Power, and Democratic Planning, 1950. In his ...

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Paul Wigner : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419196 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283818 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: ...

Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976

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British chemist and philosopher. Born, Budapest, Hungary, 1891. M.D., University of Budapest, 1913; Ph. D., 1917. Worked at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Fibre Chemistry, Berlin, 1920-23, and the Institute of Physical and Electro-Chemistry, Berlin, 1923-33. Chair, physical chemistry, 1933-48, and professor of social studies, 1948-58, University of Manchester. Senior research fellow, Merton College, Oxford, 1958-76. Died, 1976. From the description of Papers, 1900-1975 (inclusive). (Uni...

Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969

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Epithet: Editor `The Christian News-Letter' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x00012b Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, pioneer of ecumenical missionary and social concern, was born in 1874 of Scottish parents in India. He was educated in Edinburgh and at Oxford from where he graduated in 1896. A religious conversion prompted Oldham to travel to India in 1897 to work with the YMCA where he stayed fo...

Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009

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Marjorie Grene (December 13, 1910 - March 16, 2009) taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978, and from 1988 onwards served as the Honorary University Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech. She served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1976. Grene wrote extensively on the history of philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of science, especially that of biology. From the description of Marjorie Grene papers. (Cornell Univers...