Volume 27, Issue 2, 2000/2001
C.P. Goodman
Pages 8-25
A Free Society
The Polanyian Defence
Polanyi supports institutional autonomy against political control, and advocates free markets rather than central planning. Value neutrality is replaced with dedicated communities, and explicit rules are taken to require interpretative practices. Knowing is situated, but viewed as a source of progress. Attention is drawn to the role played by authority, but the universal values to which he believes a free
society ought to be dedicated are identified as transcendent.