Two sources of Michael Polanyi's prototypal notion of incommensurability: Evans-Pritchard on Azande witchcraft and St Augustine on conversion

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 57-76

  Jacobs, Struan ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conversion; Incommensurability; Science; Witchcraft; World view

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042880042     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695103016002003     Document Type: Article

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