Karl Polanyi in Vienna

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Karl Polanyi in Vienna
The Contemporary Significante of The Great Transformation
Kenneth McRobbie, Kari Polanyi Levitt, editors
This volume contains a selection of papers on re-reading The Great Transformation thatwere presented atthe Fifth Karl Polanyi International Conférence held in Vienna. Polanyi's séminal critique of the perilous conséquences of the subordination of social, cultural and environmental human needs.tothe calculusof 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, tessons of transitions to market économies in Russia and East Europe and alternative approaches to inclusionary citizenship in a world of cultural diversifies, arethethemes explored by these international scholars.
PartTwo présents memories and tributes delivered to the Vienna conférence on the life and work of llona Duczynska, Karl Polanyi's wife, political activist, writer,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Karl Polanyi in Vienna
The Contemporary Significante of The Great Transformation
Kenneth McRobbie, Kari Polanyi Levitt, editors
This volume contains a selection of papers on re-reading The Great Transformation thatwere presented atthe Fifth Karl Polanyi International Conférence held in Vienna. Polanyi's séminal critique of the perilous conséquences of the subordination of social, cultural and environmental human needs.tothe calculusof 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, tessons of transitions to market économies in Russia and East Europe and alternative approaches to inclusionary citizenship in a world of cultural diversifies, arethethemes explored by these international scholars.
PartTwo présents memories and tributes delivered to the Vienna conférence on the life and work of llona Duczynska, Karl Polanyi's 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 archivai material on the life of the Polanyis in Vienna from 1920 to 1936, including memoirs and letters in translation from German and Hun-garian and sélections from llona's unpublished papers.
Kenneth McRobbie has taught history at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia. He is also a translator and poet. He collaborated with Karl and llona Polanyi in a volume of English translations of Hungarian poetry The Plough and the Pen, and edited Volume 4 of this sériés: 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 économies department of McGill University, where she is now Emeritus Professor. She co-founded the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University, Montréal and edited the first volume of this sériés: The Life and Work of Kart Polanyi.
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