Today is Michael Polanyi‘s birthday. Polanyi (1891-1976) was a scientist-turned-philosopher, and fathered a “post-critical” point of view through books such as Personal Knowledge: Toward a Post-Critical Philosophy and The Tacit Dimension. Please see my review of Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing by Mark T. Mitchell, and for a more in-depth, academic approach to Polanyi and his ideas, visit the website of the Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies and read its publication, Appraisal.
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Lecturer in English at Coastal Carolina University
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Recipient of a scholarship to the 2006 C.S. Lewis Foundation Summer Institute
Winner of awards from the N.C. Press Association and the S.C. Press Association
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Semi-Finalist, the 1996 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship
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