Arthur Koestler

Scum of the Earth is a memoir by Arthur Koestler in which he describes his life in France during 1939-1940, the chaos that prevailed in France just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War and France’s collapse, his tribulations, internment in a concentration camp, and eventual escape to England, via North Africa …

La treizième tribu est un livre d'Arthur Koestler, publié en 1976. Il défend la thèse selon laquelle les Juifs européens et leurs descendants, c'est-à-dire les Ashkénazes, ne descendent pas des anciens Israélites, mais principalement des Khazars — un peuple originaire de la région du nord-Caucase qui a été converti au …

Les Racines du hasard est un essai d'Arthur Koestler paru en 1972, qui constitue une introduction en un langage accessible à certaines théories de la parapsychologie. On y trouve notamment des références aux perceptions extra-sensorielles comme la télépathie et à la psychokinèse. L'auteur y postule l'existence de …

Arrival and Departure is the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy concerning the conflict between morality and expediency. The first volume, The Gladiators, is about the subversion of the Spartacus revolt, and the second, Darkness at Noon, is the celebrated novel about the Soviet Show trials. Arrival and Departure …

The Ghost in the Machine is a 1967 book about philosophical psychology by Arthur Koestler. The title is a phrase coined by the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship. Koestler shares with Ryle the view that the mind of a person is not an independent …

The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts. It lays out Koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativity. From describing and comparing many different examples of …