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The tacit dimension

Michael Polanyi (Author), Amartya Sen (Writer of introduction)
This insightful book by Michael Polanyi was first published in 1966. It is based on his Terry Lectures delivered four years earlier, at Yale University. It is a deeply philosophical book, full of penetrating ideas, particularly about the knowledge of the world and the world of knowledge. The book, like other philosophical works of Polanyi, has received widespread attention and has generated a large literature

Print Book, English, ©2009
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2009