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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

2/1/1973 - 8/31/1973

Funding Totals

$10,500.00 (approved)
$10,500.00 (awarded)

collaboration with Michael Polanyi on the Problem of Restoring Humanistic Meaning to Contemporary Life

FAIN: FA-10580-73

Harry Prosch
Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-1698)

To explore the connections between metaphor, art, myth, ritual and religion as they relate to Michael Polanyi's epistemology of tacit knowing and his philosophy of science, and as they relate to the restoration of meaning in our contemporary world, and to collaborate on a book pointing to such restoration.