| Summary: | As background for explaining what The Participatory Turn is all about, Jacob Sherman does a marvelous job of situating and clarifying current controversies in religious studies methodology. As well, he does a marvelous job in showing how Bruno Latour's bracing explanation of the predicament of modern culture illuminates Polanyi's enterprise in developing, first, a post-critical philosophy that counteracts the predicament of modernity and, second, a convincing, constructive post-modern (i.e., post-critical) account of the personal, tacit, and fiduciary coefficient of knowledge in its many forms, especially scientific knowledge. His account of Polanyi's philosophical enterprise and Polanyi's understanding of knowing in all of its dimensions is remarkably sophisticated and deep, as fine as any seasoned Polanyi scholar could give.
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