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Selasa, 19 Oktober 2010

Polanyi - Books

1) Polanyi M. (1958): Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. University of Chicago Press, 428 pp.

2) Polanyi M. (1966): The Tacit Dimension. Doubleday & Co.

As Polanyi observed in The Tacit Dimension, ‘we can know more than we can tell’, (Polanyi, 1983: 4).

It is significant that, for Polanyi, the processes through which tacit knowledge is composed and utilized do not necessarily ever become available as explicit knowledge.  Rather, such accumulations of subsidiary sensation and experience give rise to the play of hunches, guesses, intuitive leaps, and gut responses which he referred to as ‘passions’.   Tacit knowledge is not sterile and distant, but is rather threaded throughout with emotion and responses close to the heart of the person.  It is this understanding which underpins and gives the name to Polanyi’s best known work, ‘Personal Knowledge’ (Polanyi, 1958).

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