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Humanity, Society and Commitment

Situating Economic Life in Past Societies

- On Karl Polanyi -

Edited by Kenneth McRobbie


The articles in this book are based on some of Polanyi's lesser known works: his journalism, letters, articles, conversations, books long out of print, and translations of Hungarian poetry.

These essays discuss economic history, education, class struggle, Christian Socialism, and Polanyi's central concern for humanity and alternative modes of socio-economic organization.

Table of Contents:
Daniel J. Fusfeld (Univ. of Michigan; former student of Karl Polanyi): Karl Polanyi's Lectures on General Economic History: A Student Remembers.
Michele Cangiani (Univ. of Venice): Prelude to The Great Transformation: Karl Polanyi's Articles for Der ™sterreichesche Volkswirt.
Marguerite Mendell (gen. editor of series): Karl Polanyi and Socialist Education.
Kenneth McRobbie (see bio. below): From the Class Struggle to the "Clean Spring".
Endre J. Nagy (Univ. of Budapest, & the Hunagarian Academy of Sciences): After Brotherhood's Golden Age: Karl & Michael Polanyi.
Kari Polanyi-Levitt (McGill Univ.): Karl Polanyi as Socialist.
Abraham Rotstein (Univ. of Toronto): Weekend Notes: Conversations with Karl Polanyi.
Christopher Lind (St. Andrew's College, Univ. of Saskatchewan): How Karl Polanyi's Moral Economy can Help Religious and Other Social Critics.
Jordan Bishop (University College, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia): Karl Polanyi & Christian Socialism.

Kenneth McRobbie teaches history at the University of British Columbia and is a poet and translator. With Ilona Duczynska, he edited and translated the Selected Poems of Ferenc Juhzs, and collaborated on The Plough and the Pen.

Volume four of the series: Critical Perspectives on Historic Issues

178 pages

Paperback ISBN: 1-895431-84-0 $19.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-895431-85-9 $48.99
ISSN: 1195-1869
L.C. No. 93-73925

Prices are in Canadian dollars in Canada and in US dollars elsewhere


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