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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.
The Act of Creation is divided into two books. In the first book, Koestler proposes a global theory of creative activity encompassing humour, scientific inquiry, and art. 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]
The book was in published in 1984, one year after Koestler's suicide. The book is divided into seven main chapters, of which the first of is a biography and the other six critical essays on each of Koestler's six novels, his stories and his play Twilight Bar. The book, which measures 200 mm x 120 mm (small format) was published by Frederick ...
The Yogi and the Commissar (1945) is a collection of essays of Arthur Koestler, divided in three parts: Meanderings, Exhortations and Explorations.In the first two parts he has collected essays written from 1942 to 1945 and the third part was written especially for this book.
Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. [1] [2] Holacracy has been adopted by for-profit and non-profit organizations in several countries. [3]
Janus: A Summing Up is a 1978 book by Arthur Koestler, in which the author develops his philosophical idea of the holarchy. First introduced in Koestler's 1967 book, The Ghost in the Machine , the holarchy provides a coherent way of organizing knowledge and nature all together.
Köstler, Koestler: Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), a Hungarian political writer The Koestler Trust, a charity; Arthur Koestler, the title of a book by Mark Levene in 1984; Arthur Koestler/Arrow in the Blue, the title of an autobiography by Arthur Koestler; Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945-51, a book about Arthur and Mamaine ...
The book is divided into five chronological Parts: 1905-1921; 1922-1926; 1926-1927; 1927-1930; 1930-1931; Each Part deals with a different phase in the author's life. The book covers the period from his birth in 1905 in Budapest, the dual capital of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, to 1931, when he joined the Communist Party of Germany.