Part One contains a selection of papers on
re-reading The Great
Transformation that were
presented at the Fifth Karl Polanyi International
Conference held in Vienna. Polanyi's seminal critique
of the perilous consequences of the subordination of
social, cultural and environmental human needs, to
the calculus of the market principle has assumed new
urgency. Globalization, the privatization of the
state, the crisis of democracy, the urgency of
development in the third world, lessons of
transitions to market economies in Russia and East
Europe and alternative approaches to inclusionary
citizenship in a world of cultural diversities, are
the themes explored by these international scholars.
Part Two presents memories and tributes
delivered to the Vienna conference on the life and
work of Ilona Duczynska, Karl Polanyi's beloved wife,
political activist, writer, translator and sovereign
revolutionary, to whose help and criticism he
dedicated The Great
Transformation. In accordance
with the title of this volume, the editors have added
archival material on the life of the Polanyis in
Vienna from 1920 to 1936, including memoirs and
letters in translation from German and Hungarian and
selections from Ilona's unpublished papers. This 2nd
edition includes as well new
material by Karl Polanyi, by Kenneth McRobbie, and by
Kari Polanyi Levitt.
Kenneth McRobbie is a poet and historian
who teaches cultural studies and intellectual history
at the University of British Columbia. He
collaborated with Karl and Ilona Polanyi in a volume
of English translations of Hungarian poetry The
Plough and the Pen, and edited
Volume 4 of this series: Humanity,
Society and Commitment.
Kari Polanyi Levitt is a political
economist specializing in development studies who
taught for many years at the University of the West
Indies and in the economics department of McGill
University, where she is now Emeritus Professor. She
co-founded the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political
Economy at Concordia University, Montreal and edited
the first volume of this series: The
Life and Work of Karl Polanyi.
Table of Contents
Volume 8 in the series Critical Perspectives
on Historic Issues
416 pages, bibliography, index, photographs
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-142-9 $36.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-143-7 $65.99
History/Politics
October 2005
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