Karl Polanyi: The Hungarian Writings

ISBN-13: 9781441117632 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str.

Gareth Dale

Opis

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964), a Hungarian-born thinker, is renowned for his seminal text, "The Great Transformation," and his writings on political economy. This is the first work to offer a collection of Polanyi's texts never before published in English.

The book presents articles, papers, lectures, speeches, notes, and draft manuscripts, mostly written between 1907 and 1923, with the exception of a few later texts. Organized thematically around religion, ethics, ideology, world politics, and Hungarian politics, the topics include contemporary thinkers, the Galilei Circle (an influential youth organization), the Tisza government, the Aster and the Bolshevik Revolutions, the Councils Republic, the Radical Citizens' Party, Hungarian democracy, the national question, political conviction, fatalism, British socialism, political theory and violence, and more. Each section includes a discussion of the political and intellectual contexts in which the texts were written.

"Karl Polanyi: The Hungarian Writings" is an outstanding and essential resource that brings to light for the first time the works of a key thinker who is relevant to today's study of globalization, neoliberalism, social movements, and international social policy.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION PART ONE: RELIGION, METAPHYSICS and ETHICS 'Culture-Pseudo-culture,' Preface to Ernö Mach's The Analysis of Sensations Faith and credulity On the destructive turn Speech on the meaning of conviction A lesson learned The Calling of Our Generation Oration to the youth of the Galilei Circle The Resurrection of Jesus PART TWO, POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES 'The Crisis of Our Ideologies' 'Radical bourgeois politics' Bourgeois Radicals, Socialists and the Established Opposition The programme and goals of radicalism. Radical Party and Bourgeois Party Manual and Intellectual Labour The test of socialism Believing and Unbelieving Politics 'The constitution of socialist Britain' 'H.G. Wells, the socialist' 'Karl Kautsky and democracy' 'Guild socialism' 'Guild and State' 'The historical background of the social revolutionaries' PART THREE, WORLD POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY 'The clowns of world peace' 'New Era' Against fear The question of war and peace in Geneva 'Uncle Polly' The rebirth of democracy 'Titanic journalism' 'H. G. Wells on salvaging civilisation' The defenders of race in Berlin 'Whites, blacks, and browns' PART FOUR, HUNGARIAN POLITICS AND HISTORY Magyar hegemony and the nationalities Law and violence 'Civil War' The Galilei Circle: A balance sheet 'Concealed Foreign Rule and Socialist Economics' PART FIVE, CORRESPONDENCE Letter to Georg Lukács, 18 August 1908 Letter to Georg Lukács, 9 December 1908 Letter to Endre Ady, Budapest, 2 February 1909 Letter to Maria Lukács, from Dresden, 25 October 1911 Letter to Lukács, 31 January 1912 'The goals of Hungarian democracy,' letter to the editor of Láthatár, Vienna, 1927 Letter to Mihály Károlyi, President of the British-Hungarian Council, London, 6 December 1944 Letter to Mihály Károlyi, London, 15 April 1946 Letter to Oszkár Jászi, London, 15 May 1946 Letter to Bandi [Endre] Havas, 25 October 1946. Letter to Jászi, 27 October 1950 Letter to György Heltai, 24 April 1960 Letter to György Heltai, 21 May 1960 Letter to István Mészáros, from Karl Polanyi and Ilona Duczynska, 30 March 1961 Letter to the editors of Új Látóhatár, 24 April 1961 Letter to István Mészáros, 24 April 1961 Letter to Lukács, 27 May 1963 Letter to Lukács, 25 January 1964 INDEX