البعد الضمني (The Tacit Dimension)

مقدمة

“The Tacit Dimension” (1966) goes back to the Terry Lectures Polanyi gave at Yale University in 1962. In three chapters – “Tacit Knowing”, “Emergence” and “A Society of Explorers” – he restates the argument of “Personal Knowledge” in compact form. The starting point is the observation that “we can know more than we can tell”: we recognise a face among thousands without being able to say how. Tacit knowing has a from-to structure: we attend from subsidiary clues, including our own body, to a focal object, so that understanding becomes a kind of indwelling. From this Polanyi argues for levels of reality that cannot be reduced to lower ones and for a community of science based on mutual authority and trust. The short book made “tacit knowledge” a widely used term, later also in management and education research.

مزيد من أعمال مايكل بولاني

• 1958المعرفة الشخصية (Personal Knowledge)