Sight, Sound, and Knowledge: Michael Polanyi's Epistemology as an Attempt to Redress the Sensory Imbalance in Modern Western Thought

Autor/in	Jardine, Murray
Titel	Sight, Sound, and Knowledge: Michael Polanyi's Epistemology as an Attempt to Redress the Sensory Imbalance in Modern Western Thought
Quelle	In: Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 31 (2011) 3, S.160-171 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-4676
DOI	10.1177/0270467611406512
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Epistemology; Postmodernism; Philosophy; Sciences; Visual Environment; Auditory Stimuli; Cultural Background; Vision + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erkenntnistheorie; Postmoderne; Philosophie; Science; Wissenschaft; Auditive Stimulation
Abstract	The author argues that Michael Polanyi's philosophy of science can be understood as an (unconscious) attempt to recapture elements of experience largely forgotten or repressed in modernity. Specifically, the author argues that Polanyi's epistemology appears to draw on elements of oral-aural experience that have been relatively ignored by the heavily visual sensory orientation typical of modern Western societies. The author does this by first deriving the primary features of the modern objectivist conception of knowledge from Polanyi's critique of objectivism and then using the anthropological literature on the differences between oral and literate cultures to demonstrate that these same aspects of the objectivist paradigm correspond closely to typical features of literate, visual consciousness while Polanyi's alternative formulations correspond to a more oral-aural orientation. (Contains 42 notes.) (As Provided).
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