Frances to members... This book promises to be a good special theory on the verbal meaning of lingual signs in the normative and nominal vein, with a further stance that seems to posit the field of science as an institutional kind of object in society, from which science gets meaning. His pluralistic philosophy is reportedly called participative realism.
MEANING Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch University Chicago Press; New Edition; Date:1975/1977 Paper; Size:5"x8"; Pages:260; List:$22; ISBN-10:0226672956; ISBN-13:978-0226672953 Content Preface, Eclipse of Thought, Personal Knowledge, Reconstruction, >From Perception to Metaphor, Works of Art, Index Descriptive Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier critique of scientific "objectivity" to investigate meaning as founded upon the imaginative and creative faculties. Establishing that science is an inherently normative form of knowledge and that society gives meaning to science instead of being given the "truth" by science, Polanyi contends here that the foundation of meaning is the creative imagination. Largely through metaphorical expression in poetry, art, myth, and religion, the imagination is used to synthesize the otherwise chaotic and disparate elements of life. To Polanyi these integrations stand with those of science as equally valid modes of knowledge. He hopes this view of the foundation of meaning will restore validity to the traditional ideas that were undercut by modern science. Polanyi also outlines the general conditions of a free society that encourage varied approaches to truth, and includes an illuminating discussion of how to restore, to modern minds, the possibility for the acceptance of religion.
