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- Title
WILLIAM POTEAT: THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON.
- Authors
Rutledge, David
- Abstract
I propose to introduce you in this article to the thought of William Poteat, a provocative and fertile American thinker who has cleared a path to recovering the richness and solidity of the human person as the centre of all knowing and meaning-making. An early admirer of Michael Polanyi, whose work decisively influenced his own, Poteat adapted and extended Polanyian insights in new, even revolutionary, ways. Despite having a relatively low profile in today's Academy, Poteat's work offers one of the twentieth century's most distinctive and important efforts to re-establish social and intellectual values within the person, thus helping us to escape our 'ripening flirtation with godhood, with infinity, restlessness, tumult, and madness.'1 After a brief description of Poteat's context and the problem that gripped him, I will devote the bulk of the essay to some of his central ideas, before concluding with a brief evaluation of his work.
- Publication
Appraisal, 2008, Vol 7, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
1358-3336
- Publication type
Academic Journal