The manuscripts series contains drafts and final copies of lectures and publications, German scientific manuscripts, speeches of introduction and thanks, patents, records of laboratory financial expenditures, poetry, notebooks, and bibliographic citations.

The drafts and final copies of lectures and publications (25:8-43:2) have been arranged chronologically by order of composition with undated manuscripts listed alphabetically at the end of the section. Within yearly groups, the manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by the titles given them at the time of composition. All titles are in italics except for chapter headings and untitled manuscripts, identified by first line of text, which are placed in quotation marks. Brief manuscripts of less than five pages are ordered in folders labeled "miscellaneous short manuscripts." The manuscripts have not been matched with any bibliography of Polanyi's published or unpublished writing except as an aid in determining the date of composition. Revised versions of manuscripts are placed under the date of revision and not under the date of original composition. An exception to this rule occurs when a group of manuscripts have been brought together for a specific lecture, such as occurs in 33:1-4. In such an instance, the manuscripts are organized under the date of the lecture with the date of original composition listed parenthetically.

The remaining manuscripts (44:3-44:11) follow the drafts and final copies of lectures and publications. The German scientific manuscripts (43:3-4) are fragmentary and contain little substantive information on the scientific work of Professor Polanyi. The speeches of introduction and thanks (43:5) consist of brief remarks made by Polanyi at banquets and conferences. The patents and records of laboratory expenditures (43:6-7) contain fragmentary evidence for Polanyi's work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute between 1923 and 1933. The small section of poetry (43:8) holds verses by Michael Polanyi as well as poems written for him on special occassions. The nine notebooks in the collection are difficult to caategorize because of diverse contents. There are four short and jumbled diaries covering the period 1926-1947 (44:1-4). In addition there are four undated notebooks (44:5) which contain brief thoughts and comments on miscellaneous authors, the English countryside, the weather, and other equally diverse subject matter. The final notebook (44:6) is an obsolete index to Professor Polanyi's correspondence files. The manuscripts series concludes with five folders of bibliographic citations.

1936

Box 25, cont.

Folder

8: An Attitude Toward Jews and Non-Jews

9: Lectures on Economics:

Popular Education in Economics
Suggestions for a new Research Section
Visual Presentation of Social Matters

10: Notes on a Film

11: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Notes on the Position of Science
On Reason
On Truth
Panic in Wall Street
Science and Liberty
Truth and Justice, Ideas and Belief

12: Russian and Soviet Economics lecture

13: Trade Cycle

14: The Working of Money: Booms and Slumps

15: Untitled manuscripts:

"In England `contempt of court' is propaganda..."
"One of the great English parliamentary orators..."
"In `Nature' October 30th..."
"Adventure of research..."

16: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Contemporary Problems
Genetics in the U.S.S.R.
Reflections on Marxism

Box 26

1939

Folder

1: Miscellaneous short manuscripts and untitled manuscripts:

Notes on Prejudice
Review of Colin Clark, A Critique of Russian Statics
"Difficulties experienced in the past..."
"It has been forcibly stated..."
"Physicists say that the supreme proof..."
"Science is a body of valid ideas..."

2: Book plan titled The Struggle of Man in Society

1940

3: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Collectivist Planning
Introductory Survey of Economic Ideas
The Liberal Ideal

4: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

The Organization of Scientific Life
Planning and Soviet Science
Planning, Culture and Freedom
Planning, Efficiency and Liberty
Science in the U.S.S.R.
Review of Eugene Varga, Two Systems

5: Untitled manuscripts:

"Dictatorships in Germany, Italy, and Russia..."
"I think it imperative..."
"Outline common principles..."
"The Socialist revolution..."
"While the benefits..."

1941

6: Foundations of Freedom in Science

7: The Independence of Science

8: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Commercialized Property
A General Scheme of Social Mechanism
Ideas and Cities
The Liberal Conception of Freedom
Modern Millennism

9: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

The New Economics
Politics; Russia and Germany, April 1941
The Process of Legislation
Csience and Modern Civilization
Csience and Society
Scientific Life
Six Conditions for the Operation of Resources Forming Personal Property

10: The Rights and Duties of Science

11: The Social Message of Science

12-13: Social planning lectures

14: Socialism and Liberalism Today

Box 27

Folder

1: Withrington League of Nations Union Lecture

2: Two untitled notebooks

1942

3: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

The city of Science
Free Trade Through Full Employment
General Will Under the Law
Jewish Problems
The liberal Conception of Freedom (revised)

4: Science, Welfare and the State

5: Socialism Examined in Theory

6-7: The Structure of Freedom

8-12: The Structure of Freedom: Welfare

Box 28

1943

Folder

1-2: Economic Planning

3: Liberalism and Monopoly: Draft Memo on a Planned Economy

4-5: Limits of State Power

6: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

The Autonomy of Science
Cambridge discussion notes
Economics of Full Employment
Organization of Science
Review of Harold J. Laski, Reflections on the Revolution of our Time
Science and the Modern Crisis
Uncertainty

7: Property and Subordination in Science (manuscript and notes)

8: The Reaction from Free Trade

9-12: Science, Ideals and Society

13: Science---Its Reality and Freedom

Box 29

Folder

1: Science: miscellaneous manuscripts and notes

2-4: Socialism Examined in Theory (revised)

5: Three untitled notebooks

1944

6-7: Economic Planning

8: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

The European Crisis
Planning and Civic Liberty
Reflections on John Dalton
Three Periods of History
Review of Erwin Schrödinger, What is life?

9-10: Patent Reform

11: Principles of Economic Expansion. Chapter 2, "Free Trade Doctrine on Unemployment"

12: ___. Chapters 3-4, "The Reaction from Free Trade, and The Retreat from Socialism"

13: Science and the Decline of Freedom

14: Science and the Modern Crisis

Box 30

1945

Folder

1: Essays on liberalism:

Programme of a Liberal Philosophy
The Structure of Liberalism
Liberalism --- Rise and Decline
The Liberal & the Totalitarian Way

2: Miscellaneous short manuscripts and untitled manuscripts:

Applied Science
Foundations of Academic Freedom
Review of Ortega y Gasset, Mission of the University
Notes from Broadcast to Germany
Notes from Holly Royde
Review of John R. Baker, Science and the Planned State
The Social Message of Pure Science
The Unity of Science
"In `Science' Magazine..."
"The past ten years..."
"The future historian..."
"Among people concerned with scholarship..."

3: The Planning of Science

4: Science and Welfare

1946

5: From Adam Smith to Keynes

6-7: The Foundations of Freedom in Science

8: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Can Science Bring Peace?
The Challenge of our Time
The Fall of Europe
Foreign Policy and Atomic Power
Freedom in Science
Full Employment in a Free Economy

9: Miscellaneous short manuscripts and untitled manuscripts:

Notes on the Possibility of a Popular Renaissance of Spiritual Beliefs
The Politics of the Atomic Age
Popular Economic Problems
Rededication in Germany
Revolution in Economic Thought
Science and the World Crisis
Social Capitalism
Review of Alexander Baykov, Soviet Economic Sysstem
The Struggle for Moral Survival
"I often wonder..."

10: Principles of Economic Organization

11: Science: Observation and Belief

12: The Struggle for Faith

1947

13: The Financing of Universities

14: The Foundations of Academic Freedom (revised)

Box 31

Folder

1: Jewish Problems

2: Memorandum on the Atomic Bomb

3: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Answers to Questions at the Meeting of the Economic Reform Club
British Crisis (1947-?)
The Growth of Thought in Society
Humanitas
Inflationary Tendencies of Modern Socialism
Notes on Historic Determinism
Old Tasks and New Hopes

4: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Over-Optimism about Russia?
Science: Academic and Industrial
Review of E. Ashby, Scientist in Russia
Soviets and Capitalism
Speech of Thanks for Honorary Degree, the University of Leeds, 14 May 1947
Two Kinds of Order
The Universities Today

5: Modern Science and Modern Thought

6: Organization of Universities

7: Political Control of Scientists

8: The Relevance of Unviersities

9: The Universities Today

10: What to Believe

1948

11-13: Dynamic Order

14: Economic lectures (untitled)

Box 32

Folder

1: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Ancestry of the Idea of Central Economic Planning
Aus der Welt der Wissenschaft
Education ---- By Whose Authority?
The Free Society
Review of Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge
Review of E. M. Friedwald, Man's Last Choice
Michurinist Education and Achievements

2: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Notes Taken in France
Organization of Science
Planning and Spontaneous Order
Science's Part in the Spiritual Struggle
Review of Hans Morgenthau, Scientific Man versus Power Politics
Thinking about Thought

3: The Planning of Science

Ought Science to be Planned?

4-5: Thought and Order

1949

6: Can the Mind Be Represented by a Machine?

7: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Review of John M. Clark, Alternative to Serfdom
Review of Arthur Koestler, Insight and Outlook
Review of Paul Freedman, The Principles of Scientific Research

8: The Logic of Liberty. Lectures at the University of Chicago, Lecture 1, "Perils of Inconsistency"

9:____. Lecture 3, "Freedom in Science"

10:____. Lecture 4, "The Span of Central Control"

11:____. Lecture 5, "Variants of Self-Coordination"

12:____. Lecture 6, "Polycentricity"

13:____. Lecture 7, "Critique of Freedom"

14:____. Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes

15: Miscellaneous short manuscripts and untitled manuscripts:

Review of Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
The Scientific Concept of Man
Review of Barbara Wooton, Testament for Social Science
"But there is a more serious sense..."

Box 33

1951

Folder

1: Manuscripts used in the Gifford Lectures. Notebooks 1-3

2-3:____. The Law, 1942

4:____. Meaning, 1947 and The Structure of Liberalism, 1945

5: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Review of David Mitrany, Marx Against the Peasant
Review of Karl Mannheim, Freedom, Power and Democratic Planning
Review of Ernest Barker, Principles of Social and Political Theory
Salvation by Science

1952

6: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Review of Alex Weissberg, Conspiracy of Silence
Review of Karl Mannheim, Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge
Review of Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society
Morphological Sciences
Review of Erwin Schrödinger, Science and Humanism
The Stability of Beliefs

7: The Policy of Full Employment

1953

8: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Review of F. A. Hayek, The Counter-Revolution of Science
The Determinants of Social Action (revised)
Review of Robert Strauz-Hupé, The Estrangement of Western Man
Protests and Problems
Review of Bernard Barber, Science and the Social Order
Review of Jules Monnerat, Sociology of Communism
Soziale Illusionen

1954

9: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Review of Arthur Koestler, Invisible Writing
Review of Ralph Barton Perry, Realms of Value
Review of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding
Review of A. J. H. Sprott, Science and Social Action

1955, 1956, 1957

10: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Review of Gabriel A. Almond, The Appeals of Communism (1955)
From Copernicus to Einstein (1955)
The Future of Liberalism in Eastern Europe (1957)
Hydrogen Bomb (1957)
The Magic of Marxism (1956)
On the Limits of Economic Planning (1955)
Social Control: Visible and Invisible (1957)
Review of V. G. Childe, Society and Knowledge (1956)
Study Group of the Committee for Science and Freedom(1956)
Die Stunde der Wahrheit (1956)
This Age of Discovery (1956)
Words, Conceptions and Science (1955)

1958

11: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

The Outlook of Science: Its Sickness and Cure
Positive Liberalism

12: Das Studium des Menschen

1959

13: Miscellaneous short manuscripts and untitled manuscripts:

Questions for an Inquiry into the Nature of Soviet Planning
"I would like to say that..."
"The ideas which I want to sketch here..."

Box 34

1960

Folder

1: Perspectives of Personal Knowledge. The Gunning Lectures. Lecture 1, "Logical Foundations"

2:____. Lecture 2, "Originality"

3:____. Lecture 3, "Emergence and Reflection"

4:____. Lecture 4, "Social Structure and Alienation: Commitment"

5:____. Lecture 5, "The Process of History"

6-7: Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes: Beyond Nihilism

8: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Review of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
Rede von Professor Michael Polanyi auf der Schlussitzung
The Study of Man
Theory of Conspicuous Productions

9: Originality (revised)

10: Personal Judgment in Science

11: Science: Academic and Industrial (revised)

12: Science and Reality

13: St. Julians, March 1960

14: The structure of Tacit Knowing (early draft)

1961

15: History and Hope. Lectures delivered at the Thomas Jefferson Center for studies in political economy at the University of Virginia

16: Beyond Nihilism: A Postcript

17: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Conspicuous Production (revised)
My Time with X-Rays and Crystals

Box 35

Folder

1: The Modern Mind; Its Structure and Prospects (the stage of 11 May 1962). Chapter 2, "The Realm of the Unspoken"

2:____. Chapter 3, "The Vindication of REality"

3:____. Chapter 4, "Emergence"

4:____. Chapter 5, "A Society of Explorers"

5:____. Chapter 6, "Commitment"

6: Terry Lectures as deliered at Yale University, October 31-November 3, 1962. (Note: Much of this material was revised for the 1964 Duke University Lectures.) Lecture 1, first half, "Tacit Knowing"

7:____. Lecture 1, first half, "Tacit Knowing" (with 1963 revisions)

8-9:____. Lecture 1, first half, "Tacit Knowing" (with 1963 revisions)

10:____. Lecture 1, part 2 "Tacit Knowing: Heuristics" (1963 revision)

11:____. Lecture 2, "Comprehensive Entities" (with 1963 revision entitied "Emergence")

12: ____. Lecture 3, "Man in Thought" (with 1963 revision entitied "Thought in Society")

1963

13-14: Tacit Knowing (a version of the first Terry Lecture revised for publication)

15: The Metaphysical Aspects of Science (early draft)

Box 36

Folder

1-2: The Metaphysical Reach of Science (ealry draft)

3: Points from a Conversation with Paul Tillich

1964

4: Man in Thought. Lectures delivered at Duke University. Lecture 1, "The Metaphysical Reach of Science." Copy used in lecture

5:____. Lecture 1, "The Metaphysical Reach of Science." Mimeograph and carbon copies

6:____. Lecture 1, "The Metaphysical Reach of Science." Corrected carbons

7:_____. Lecture 1, "The Metaphysical Reach of Science." Adapted to book format

8:____. Lecture 1, "The Metaphysical Reach of Science." Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes

9:____. Lecture 2, "The Structure of Tacit Knowing." Two copies used in lecture

10:____. Lecture 2, "The Structure of Tacit Knowing." Mimeograph and carbon copies

11:____. Lecture 2, "The Structure of Tacit Knowing." As delivered in Chicago, 1967

12:____. Lecture 2, "The Structure of Tacit Knowing." Adapted to book format

13:____. Lecture 3, "Commitment to Science." Copy used in lecture

14:____. Lecture 3, "Commitment to Science." Mimeograph copies

15:____. Lecture 3, "Commitment to Science." Adapted to book format

16:____. Lecture 4, "The Emergence of Man." Copy used in lecture

17:____. Lecture 4, "The Emergence of Man." Mimeograph copies

Box 37

Folder

1:____. Lecture 5, "Thought in Society." Copy used in lecture

2:____. Lecture 5, "Thought in Society." Mimeograph copies

3:____. Lecture 5, "Thought in Society." Adapted to book format (entited, "Chapter 3, The Powers of the Imagination")

4: Notes for a projected sixth Duke Lecture on "Ultimate Reality"

5: The Modern Mind; Its Structure and Prospects (1964 revision). Chapter 1, "The Destruciton of Reality"

6:____. Chapter 2, "The Realm of the Unspoken"

7:____. Chapter 3, "The Vindication of Reality"

8:____. Chapter 4, "Emergence"

9:____. Chapter 5, "A Society of Explorers"

10:____. Chapter 6, "Commitment"

11: The Modern Mind; Its Structure and Prospects. Lecture delivered at Bowdoin College

12: Miscellaneous short manuscripts and untitled manuscripts:

About Religious Faith
Grounds of Knowledge
Modern Minds --- New Departures
Notes to Ultimate Reality
On Body and Mind
Tacit Affiliations
"Let me explore this vision..."

13: Science, Tacit and Explicit

1965

14: The Body-Mind Relation

15: Man's Place in the Universe. Wesleyan Lectures. Lecture 1, "Science and Reality"

16:____. Lecture 2, "The Structure of Tacit Knowing"

Box 36

Folder

1-2:____. Lecture 3, "The Creative Imagination." (also entitled "Man in Thought," and "Powers of the Imagination")

3:___. Lecture 4, "The Growth of Science in Society," and Lecture 5, "Levels of Reality"

4:____. Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes

5:____. Bound copy of six lectures

6: Man in Search of Meaning

1966

7: The Growth of Science in Society

8: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

Autobiography by Michael Polanyi (for Mid-Century Authors)
Collection of Data on Cultural Development
The Message of the Hungarian Revolution
Opening Address, Niebuhr Celebration, New York, Feb. 25, 1966

9: Sinngebung and Sinndeutung

1967

10: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

On the Structure of Living Things
Sense---Giving and Sense Reading:Of Language
Sixty Years in Universities
What is a Painting?

1968

11: The Grounds of Knowledge and Discovery. Manuscripts and notes

12: Logic and Psychology

Box 39

Folder

1: The Meaning of Paintings

2: Miscellaneous short manuscripts:

About Revolutions Already Forgotten
Life's Irreducible Structure

3: Seminars in the Committee on Social Thought, the University of Chicago. Spring, 1968. Bound copy

1969

4: Grounds of Knowledge (Heidelburg revision)

5: Grounds of Knowledge (1973 and 1974 revisions)

6: Meaning: A Project. Lectures and seminars at the University of Chicago. Lecture 1, "From Perception to Metaphor"

7:____. Lecture 2, "Works of Art"

8-9:____. Lecture 2, "Works of Art" notes

10:____. Lecture 3, "Visionary Art"

11:____. Lecture 4, "Myths, Ancient and Modern"

Box 40

Folder

1:____. Supplemental matrials

2: Meaning. A book adapted from Chicago materials by Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch. Outline and Chapters 1-3

3:____. Chapters 4-9

4:____. Chapters 10-13

5:____. Copy Two, Chapters 1-3

6:____. Copy Two, Chapters 4-8

7:____. Copy Two, Chapters 9-13

8:____. Fragments

9: Meaning. Bound copy of seminars given in the Committee on Social Thought, the University of Chicago. Spring, 1969

Box 41

1970

Folder

1-2: Meaning. Draft of a lecture dated May 1970

3: Science and Man. Nuffield Lecture also delivered at Loyola University of Chicago

1971

4: Lectures delivered at the University of Texas at Austin. Lecture 1, "Science and Man." (revised version of Nuffield and Loyola lectures)

5-6:____. Lecture 2, "Genius in Science"

7-8:____. Lecture 3, "Representative Art"

9:____.Lecture 4, "Meaning," and Lecture 5, "Expanding the Range"

10: The Grounds of Natural Science

1972

11: About Religious Faith (revised manuscript with notes)

Box 42

Undated

Folder

1-4: Untitled essays written between 1935 and 1940 on various subjects

5: Clues towards and Understanding of Mind and Body and A Cycle of History

6: Discoveries of Science

7: Emergence

8: Foundations of Science and Discovery

9: Honor and Mutual Authority

10: Lines of Thought

11: Meaning

12: Science and Reality

13-14: Part 1 of a presentation on economic productivity

Box 43

Folder

1-2: Fragments

3-4: German scientific manuscripts

5: Speeches of introduction and thanks

6: Patents

7: Laboratory financial expenditures

8: Poetry

9-15: German translation of Personal Knowledge

Box 44 Notebooks, travel diaries, and bibliographies

Folder

1: Notebook dated summer, 1926

2: Notebook dated 1925-1928

3: Notebook dated "Trip to America," 1929

4: Diary --- 1929

5: Notebook dated "Berlin Visit," Nov. 27 - Dec. 3, 1947

6: Notebook on various subjects (undated)

7: Notebook containing undated obsolete index to correspondence files

8: Notebook: Books and Papers Lent Out to Fellow Workers

Notebook: Notes, Aug.-Oct. 1963, mainly about Dewey

9-12: Bibliographic Citations

Memorabilia

Memorabilia in the Polanyi Papers falls into three groups: photographs and postcards; general memorabilia (including addresses, announcements, Christmas cards, invitations, obituaries, programs, receipts, reports, etc.); and clippings. The photographs are of Michael Polanyi, his family and friends. Where possible, the subject in a photograph has been identified on the back of the print. The clippings include letters and articles by Michael Polanyi, reviews of Michael Polanyi's work, and articles by Polanyi's mother Cecile, mostly copies of her fashion column in a Budapest newspaper. The series of memorabilia concludes with a small group of clippings and other printed materials from the German National Socialist period.

Box 44a Photographs and postcards

Folder

1-4: Photographs

5: Postcards

Box 45 General Memorabilia

Folder

1: Addresses

2-3: Announcements

4-5: Christmas cards

6: Invitations

7: Obituaries

8: Programs

9: Receipts

10: Reports

11: Miscellaneous

Box 46 Clippings

Folder

1: Letters and articles by Michael Polanyi

2-3: Reviews of Michael Polanyi's work

4: Articles about Michael Polanyi

5: Articles concerning the withholding of Michael Polanyi's visa under the McCarran Act

6-9: Articles by Cecile Polanyi

10-11: Printed materials from the German National Socialist period

12: Memoir of Michael Polanyi by Elizabeth Sewell

Box 47

Videotape of 1938 Film, Unemployment and Money