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Doubleday/Anchor, 1966-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Peter Smith Publisher, 1983. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Peter Smith Publisher, 1983. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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University Of Chicago Press, May 2009. Paper Back. New. Michael Polanyi summarized his mature thought in Harvard University's 1962 Terry Lectures. The lectures, here reprinted in a sturdy hardbound volume, address the fundamental question: 'How can we understand any phenomena complex enough to be truly valuable?' One thinks of morality, love, and the sacramental life. Polanyi's answer -- surprising yet convincing -- invokes a tacit, unspoken and unspeakable, human facility that transposes our sensory perceptions into meaningful knowledge much as a blind man transposes the forces exerted by a cane on his hand into something utterly different: a picture of his nearby world. Polanyi's analysis eschews reductionism, elevates the person to the truly real, and advances a traditionalism that enjoins belief before knowledge. Finally, he warns against the twin fanaticisms of our time: an extreme lucidity that destroys what it seeks to explain and a moral perfectionism that degenerates… Read More

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University Of Chicago Press, 2009-05-01. Reissue. Paperback. Used:Good.

Brand: Peter Smith Publisher Inc, 0000-00-00. Reprint. hardcover. Used: Good.

Peter Smith Pub Inc, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good, clean, tight condition. Blue cloth. Text has no marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Paperback / softback. New. Suitable for students and scholars, this title challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Suitable for students and scholars, this title challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

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USA: Peter Smith Pub Inc, 1983 108 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket.

University Of Chicago Press, 2009. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 108 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches.

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Routledge, 1967-04. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First UK edition. Top edge a tad soiled, former owner's stamp on front endpaper, pencil underlining on one page, else a very good copy in a mildly soiled dust jacket.

University of Chicago Press, 2009-05-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

University of Chicago Press. paperback. New. 84x9x128. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing