Everyman Revived: The Common Sense of Michael Polanyi

by Drusilla Scott

This lucid and accessible study of Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), the scientist of world repute who challenged the modern scientific view of truth, introduces Polanyi's trailblazing work and main ideas and demonstrates their continued value and meaning for today's world. Scott highlights the place of the creative imagination in science and shows the deadly effects of a mistaken understanding of science on our modern civilization.

Genres: Philosophy

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 1985

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learning about the thought of Michael Polanyi was a huge “aha moment” for me regarding how to think about the nature of truth.

Here is a link to an excellent audio overview of Polanyi’s life and thought done in the style of NPR’s All Things Considered.
https://marshillaudio.org/catalog/tac...

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An essential and enjoyable book for anyone interested in the vastly important work of Michael Polanyi. The final chapter contains some profound "seed thoughts" for approaches to integrating the thought of Polanyi with the gospel of Jesus Christ. But in fact every chapter was excellent although not all the chapters were equally easy to read. It is not necessarily scholarly, but simply dense in some places. But overall it will well repay anyone's efforts they give to it.