Arthur Koestler

Mørke midt på dagen er en bok av forfatteren Arthur Koestler, utgitt på engelsk i 1940. Manuskriptet var skrevet på tysk, men ble smuglet til England sammen med at Koestler selv rømte for nazistene. Boken omhandler hendelsene omkring Moskva-prosessene. Koestler kjente personlig flere av de tiltalte, og brukte …

Forsoningen er en roman av den tysk-engelske forfatteren og maleren Fred Uhlman og er hans eneste roman. Romanen ble utgitt i 1971 og handler om begrepet forsoning der han hadde etterspillet av andre verdenskrig i tankene. Av den berømte forfatteren Arthur Koestler ble romanen betegnet som et «mesterverk i miniatyr» i …

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split …

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 …

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 …

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 Roots of Coincidence is a 1972 book by Arthur Koestler, an introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. Koestler postulates links between modern physics, their interaction with time and paranormal phenomena. It is influenced by Carl Jung's concept of …

The Thirteenth Tribe is a 1976 book by Arthur Koestler, in which he advances the thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Koestler's hypothesis is that the Khazars migrated westwards into Eastern Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries …