Karl Polanyi The Hungarian Writings

This is the first work to offer a collection of Polanyi's texts never before published in English. The book presents articles, papers, lectures, speeches, notes, and draft manuscripts, mostly written between 1907 and 1923, with the exception of a few later texts. Organised thematically around religion, ethics, ideology, world politics and Hungarian politics, the topics include contemporary thinkers, the Galilei Circle, the Tisza government, the Aster and the Bolshevik Revolutions, the Councils Republic, the Radical Citizens' Party, Hungarian democracy, the national question, political conviction, fatalism, British socialism, political theory and violence, and more. Each section includes a discussion of the political and intellectual contexts in which the texts were written.

Karl Polanyi: The Hungarian Writings is an outstanding and essential resource that brings to light for the first time the works of a key thinker who is relevant to today's study of globalisation, neoliberalism, social movements, and international social policy.

Introduction

Part I: Religion, metaphysics and ethics

1. 'Culture-Pseudo-culture,'

2. Preface to Ernö Mach's The Analysis of Sensations

3. Faith and credulity

4. On the destructive turn

5. Speech on the meaning of conviction

6. A lesson learned

7. The Calling of Our Generation

8. Oration to the youth of the Galilei Circle

9. The Resurrection of Jesus

Part II: Political ideologies

10. 'The Crisis of Our Ideologies'

11. 'Radical bourgeois politics'

12. Bourgeois Radicals, Socialists and the Established Opposition

13. The programme and goals of radicalism.

14. Radical Party and Bourgeois Party

15. Manual and Intellectual Labour

16. The test of socialism

17. Believing and Unbelieving Politics

18. 'The constitution of socialist Britain'

19. 'H.G. Wells, the socialist'

20. 'Karl Kautsky and democracy'

21. 'Guild socialism'

22. 'Guild and State'

23. 'The historical background of the social revolutionaries'

Part III: World politics and philosophy of history

24. 'The clowns of world peace'

25. 'New Era'

26. Against fear

27. The question of war and peace in Geneva

28. 'Uncle Polly'

29. The rebirth of democracy

30. 'Titanic journalism'

31. 'H. G. Wells on salvaging civilisation'

32. The defenders of race in Berlin

33. 'Whites, blacks, and browns'

Part IV: Hungarian politics and history

34. Magyar hegemony and the nationalities

35. Law and violence

36. 'Civil War'

37. The Galilei Circle: A balance sheet

38. 'Concealed Foreign Rule and Socialist Economics'

Part V: Correspondence

39. Letter to Georg Lukács, 18 August 1908

40. Letter to Georg Lukács, 9 December 1908

41. Letter to Endre Ady, Budapest, 2 February 1909

42. Letter to Maria Lukács, from Dresden, 25 October 1911

43. Letter to Lukács, 31 January 1912

44. 'The goals of Hungarian democracy,' letter to the editor of Láthatár, Vienna, 1927

45. Letter to Mihály Károlyi, President of the British-Hungarian Council, London, 6 December 1944

46. Letter to Mihály Károlyi, London, 15 April 1946

47. Letter to Oszkár Jászi, London, 15 May 1946

48. Letter to Bandi [Endre] Havas, 25 October 1946.

49. Letter to Jászi, 27 October 1950

50. Letter to György Heltai, 24 April 1960

51. Letter to György Heltai, 21 May 1960

52. Letter to István Mészáros, from Karl Polanyi and Ilona Duczynska, 30 March 1961

53. Letter to the editors of Új Látóhatár, 24 April 1961

54. Letter to István Mészáros, 24 April 1961

55. Letter to Lukács, 27 May 1963

56. Letter to Lukács, 25 January 1964

Index