Wallas, Graham, ida
Walter, W. Gray, 251
Wars, origin of, 14-15, 19
Watson,J. B., 25, 165-8, 196
Weaver, Warren, 266
Weeping, 137, 137 n, 138-9
Weismann, August, 196-7, 200-3, 213
Weiss, P. A., 23 n, 30, 290, 299, 308
Welles, Orson, 324
Wells, H. G., 281
Welträtsel, Die (The Riddles of the Universe), 279
What is Life?, 268-9
Wheeler, J. A., 254, 254 n, 255
Whitehead, A. North, 159
Wholeness, 26-7, 33, 58, 60-2, 66-7, 74, 78, 82
Whyte, L. L., 188 n, 210 n, 224 n, 270
Wickranashinghe, Chandra, 283
Wiener Walzer, 127
Wilberforce, Samuel, bishop of Oxford, 179
Wilson, D., 37 n
Wit, Ch. VI passim, 135
Witticisms, 120-1, 133
Wolsky, A., 174 n
Wolsky, M. de I., 174 n
Woltereck, N., 224 n, 269
Wood Jones, F., 12
Woodger,J., 32, 293 n
Woodworth, R. S., 150, 312, 314
Yale University, 83-5, 125, 256, 279
Yeats, W. B., 143, 145
Yoga, 46, 55, 234
Young, J. Z., 217
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ARTHUR KOESTLER was born in 1905 in Budapest. Though he studied science
and psychology in Vienna, at the age of twenty he became a foreign
correspondent and worked for various European newspapers in the Middle
East, Paris, Berlin, Russia and Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, which
he covered from the Republican side, he was captured and imprisoned for
several months by the Nationalists, but was exchanged after international
protest. In 1939-40 he was interned in a French detention camp. After
his release, due to British government intervention, he joined the
French Foreign Legion, subsequently' escaped to England, and joined the
British Army.
Like many other intellectuals in the thirties, Koestler saw in the Soviet
experiment the only hope and alternative to fascism. He became a member
of the Communist Party in 1931, but left it in disillusionment during the
Moscow purges in 1938. His earlier books were mainly concerned with these
experiences, either in autobiographical form or in essays or political
novels. Among the latter, Darkness At Noon has been translated into
thirty-three languages.
After World War II, Mr. Koestler became a British citizen, and all his
books since 1940 have been written in English. He now lives in London,
but he frequently lectures at American universities, and was a Fellow
at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
in 1964-65.
In 1968 Mr. Koestler received the Sonning Prize at the University of
Copenhagen for his contributions to European culture. He is also a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire, as well as one of the ten
Companions of Literature, elected by the Royal Society of Literature. His
works are now being republished in a collected edition of twenty volumes.
PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Arthur
Koestler
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"Few can surpass the clarity and simplicity with which Koestler
can translate complex scientific ideas into common language:
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This important work is at once a summary and an extension of Arthur
Koestler's lifelong examination of the "sciences of life -- the evolution,
creativity and pathology of the human mind." Its central theme is the
position of man in the post-Hiroshima world, a time when such traditional
doctrines as rationalism, materialism, and determinism offer little
hope for our continued survival. This encyclopedic study ranges from
small-particle physics to humor, and the analysis is both informed and
highly suggestive. As Koestler questions our understanding of life,
he also contributes to it -- in this book with a new and compelling
model of the human mind, based on the rival tendencies of independence
and cooperation.
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"In this eloquent distillation of his ideas ... koestler demonstrates the
breadth of vision that makes him one of the most challenging
thinkers of our time."
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Table of Contents
Author's Note
Prologue
PART ONE
I The Holarchy
II Beyond Eros and Thanatos
III The Three Dimensions of Emotion
IV Ad Majorem Gloriam ...
V An Alternative to Despair
PART TWO
VI Humour and Wit
VII The Art of Discovery
VIII The Discoveries of Art
PART THREE
IX Crumbling Citadels
X Lamarck Revisited
XI Strategies and Purpose in Evolution
PART FOUR
XII Free Will in a Hierarchic Context
XIII Physics and Metaphysics
XIV A Glance through the Keyhole
APPENDICES
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
References
Bibliography
Index
section 12
later
Russell's anecdote
p. 110
Ch. VIII, 9
Ch. I, 9
Ch. I, 13
Chapter I, 10
Ch. IX, 7
Chapter VII, 2
Chapter II, 4
Chapter I, 6
pp. 200 ff
p. 140
p. 282a