About the Author

Mary Jo Nye is the Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professor of the Humanities Emerita and professor of history emerita at Oregon State University.

Reviews

"There isn't a lot of current interest in who Polanyi was and how he came to hold the views he did. Mary Jo Nye's excellent and richly researched book aims to tell us and, along the way, uncovers a genealogy for the notion of tacit knowledge that situates it in the force fields shaping much twentieth-century thinking about politics and economics as well as science." (Steven Shapin, London Review of Books) "Mary Jo Nye's rich, impressive book recasts the science wars' barbs of the recent past by illuminating the searing politics, intellectual passions, and spirited debates that drove Polanyi and his generation to think about science in social terms." (David Kaiser, Science)"