Volume 42, Issue 1, October 2015
David W. Rutledge
Pages 10-17
Who Was Michael Polanyi?
A Primer for Poteat Scholars
Full appreciation of Bill Poteat’s work requires an understanding of Michael Polanyi. This essay briefly recounts Polanyi’s biography, then describes central features of his thought, especially the centrality of discovery, commitment, and tacit knowing. It then reports on Poteat’s own summary of Polanyi’s thought in his major work, Polanyian Meditations.