<p>In The Sleepwalkers and The Act of Creation Arthur Koestler provided pioneering studies of scientific discovery and artistic inspiration, the twin pinnacles of human achievement. The Ghost in the Machine looks at the dark side of the coin: our terrible urge to self-destruction...</p><p> </p><p>Could the human species be a gigantic evolutionary mistake? To answer that startling question Koestler examines how experts on evolution and psychology all too often write about people with an ‘antiquated slot-machine model based on the naively mechanistic world-view of the nineteenth century. His brilliant polemic helped to instigate a major revolution in the life sciences, yet its ‘glimpses of an alternative world-view’ form only the background to an even more challenging analysis of the human predicament. Perhaps, he suggests, we are a species in which ancient and recent brain structures - or reason and emotion - are not fully co-ordinated. Such in-built deficiencies
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<p><b>Arthur Koestler''s extraordinary history of humanity''s changing vision of the universe</b><br><br>In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between ''sciences''...
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This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler''s trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON - and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this...
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<p>The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of <i>Darkness at Noon</i>.<br><br>In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his...
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<i>Darkness at Noon</i> is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a powerful player in the regime, finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason. His reflections on his previous...
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