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Arthur Koestler CBE (UK: / ˈ k ɜː s t l ər /, US: / ˈ k ɛ s t-/; German:; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest , and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years.
Koestler's contribution appeared on 2 October 1969. Sins of Omission: While Six Million Died by Arthur D. More. Reviewed in the Observer, 7 April 1968. The Future if any: The Biological Time-Bomb by Gordon Rattray Taylor. Reviewed in the Observer, 21 April 1968. Going Down the Drain : The Doomsday Book by Gordon Rattray Taylor.
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Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (1959), Hutchinson; First published in the United States by Macmillan in 1959; Published by Penguin Books in 1964; Reissued by Pelican Books in 1968; Reprinted by Peregrine Books in 1986; ISBN 0-14-055212-X; Reprinted by Arkana in 1989; ISBN 0-14-019246-8 [9]
The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue (ISBN 0-09-112550-2) is 1972 a novel by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler. [1] Its plot tells the story of a group of academic scientists struggling to understand the human tendency towards self-destruction, while the group members gradually become more suspicious and aggressive towards each other.
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Koestler's fundamental idea is that any creative act is a bisociation (not mere association) of two (or more) apparently incompatible frames of thought. [1] Employing a spatial metaphor, Koestler calls such frames of thought matrices : "any ability, habit, or skill, any pattern of ordered behaviour governed by a 'code' of fixed rules."
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