Abstract

The first two chapters of this book reiterate the results established by Polanyi in his more comprehensive work, Personal Knowledge, and, according to the author, might serve as an introduction to that work. In the third and final chapter Polanyi illustrates his thesis that the study of man is continuous with the study of nature, by interpreting history according to his theory of personal knowledge, thus repudiating Collingwood and other "secessionist" theorists of history. A common ground of natural sciences and humanities is postulated in the appetitive,, perceptive center of man. --J. E. M.