This is the first work to offer a collection of Polanyi's texts never before published in English. The book presents articles, papers, lectures, speeches, notes, and draft manuscripts, mostly written between 1907 and 1923, with the exception of a few later texts. Organised thematically around religion, ethics, ideology, world politics and Hungarian politics, the topics include contemporary thinkers, the Galilei Circle, the Tisza government, the Aster and the Bolshevik Revolutions, the Councils Republic, the Radical Citizens' Party, Hungarian democracy, the national question, political conviction, fatalism, British socialism, political theory and violence, and more. Each section includes a discussion of the political and intellectual contexts in which the texts were written.
Karl Polanyi: The Hungarian writings is an outstanding and essential resource that brings to light for the first time the works of a key thinker who is relevant to today's study of globalisation, neoliberalism, social movements, and international social policy.

IntroductionPart I: Religion, metaphysics and ethics1. 'Culture-Pseudo-culture,'2. Preface to Ernö Mach's The Analysis of Sensations3. Faith and credulity4. On the destructive turn5. Speech on the meaning of conviction6. A lesson learned7. The Calling of Our Generation8. Oration to the youth of the Galilei Circle9. The Resurrection of JesusPart II: Political ideologies10. 'The Crisis of Our Ideologies'11. 'Radical bourgeois politics'12. Bourgeois Radicals, Socialists and the Established Opposition13. The programme and goals of radicalism.14. Radical Party and Bourgeois Party15. Manual and Intellectual Labour16. The test of socialism17. Believing and Unbelieving Politics18. 'The constitution of socialist Britain'19. 'H.G. Wells, the socialist'20. 'Karl Kautsky and democracy'21. 'Guild socialism'22. 'Guild and State'23. 'The historical background of the social revolutionaries'Part III: World politics and philosophy of history24. 'The clowns of world peace'25. 'New Era'26. Against fear27. The question of war and peace in Geneva28. 'Uncle Polly'29. The rebirth of democracy30. 'Titanic journalism'31. 'H. G. Wells on salvaging civilisation'32. The defenders of race in Berlin33. 'Whites, blacks, and browns'Part IV: Hungarian politics and history34. Magyar hegemony and the nationalities35. Law and violence36. 'Civil War'37. The Galilei Circle: A balance sheet38. 'Concealed Foreign Rule and Socialist Economics'Part V: Correspondence39. Letter to Georg Lukács, 18 August 190840. Letter to Georg Lukács, 9 December 190841. Letter to Endre Ady, Budapest, 2 February 190942. Letter to Maria Lukács, from Dresden, 25 October 191143. Letter to Lukács, 31 January 191244. 'The goals of Hungarian democracy,' letter to the editor of Láthatár, Vienna, 192745. Letter to Mihály Károlyi, President of the British-Hungarian Council, London, 6 December 194446. Letter to Mihály Károlyi, London, 15 April 194647. Letter to Oszkár Jászi, London, 15 May 194648. Letter to Bandi [Endre] Havas, 25 October 1946.49. Letter to Jászi, 27 October 195050. Letter to György Heltai, 24 April 196051. Letter to György Heltai, 21 May 196052. Letter to István Mészáros, from Karl Polanyi and Ilona Duczynska, 30 March 196153. Letter to the editors of Új Látóhatár, 24 April 196154. Letter to István Mészáros, 24 April 196155. Letter to Lukács, 27 May 196356. Letter to Lukács, 25 January 1964Index