Arthur Koestler
Biographic Data
| ID | 378696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Koestler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Koestler |
| SIGNATURE | KOESTLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Novelis (Canada) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Death
Sammy's face held the grey stoniness of death when I pulled down the sheet that covered him. I rolled him over and my fellow attendant wiped his soiled buttocks. We heaved his body from the stretcher-cart onto the table. We bathed and dried it. We shoved cotton up the rectum with a split tongue-depressor. We tied the penis. We pinned on a makeshift diaper, strapped the jaw shut and bound hands, ankles, and legs with strips of cloth. I tied a tag …
The Truth of Imagination
There is an obscure passage in a letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey, written in 1817, which says: I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination...This does not seem to make much sense. Nor does it help much to find an echo of that passage in the famous last lines of the Ode on a Grecian Urn, written two years later: Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need…
Less equal than others
The Case of the Midwife Toad
The act of creation
Rebellion in a Vacuum
The Lotus and the Robot
The Lotus and the Robot
Notes & Correspondence
Reflections on Hanging
Insight and Outlook
Koestler on Zion
The Yogi and the Commissar
The Yogi and the Commissar
Insight and Outlook
Koestler on Zion
Reflections on Hanging
Notes & Correspondence
The Lotus and the Robot
The Lotus and the Robot
Rebellion in a Vacuum
The act of creation
The Case of the Midwife Toad
Less equal than others
Beyond Death
Sammy's face held the grey stoniness of death when I pulled down the sheet that covered him. I rolled him over and my fellow attendant wiped his soiled buttocks. We heaved his body from the stretcher-cart onto the table. We bathed and dried it. We shoved cotton up the rectum with a split tongue-depressor. We tied the penis. We pinned on a makeshift diaper, strapped the jaw shut and bound hands, ankles, and legs with strips of cloth. I tied a tag …
The Truth of Imagination
There is an obscure passage in a letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey, written in 1817, which says: I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination...This does not seem to make much sense. Nor does it help much to find an echo of that passage in the famous last lines of the Ode on a Grecian Urn, written two years later: Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need…
Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Botany (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Lotus (2 works)