Tacit Dimension

Michael Polanyi

ISBN 10: 0710019610 / ISBN 13: 9780710019615

Published by Routledge, 1967

About this Item

First Edition. First UK edition. Top edge a tad soiled, former owner's stamp on front endpaper, pencil underlining on one page, else a very good copy in a mildly soiled dust jacket. Seller Inventory # mon0000039989

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tacit Dimension

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: 1967

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

First UK edition hardcover, with unclipped plastic covered dust jacket, in good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket, including some scuffing and scoring. Residue from taped inner flaps has transferred to the endpapers, and previous owner's name penned to the front pastedown. The pages and text are clean and unmarked throughout. LW

About the Author:

Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) was a Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of many books, including Science, Faith and Society and Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, both published by the University of Chicago Press.  Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, is the Lamont University Professor at Harvard University.