The Lotus And The Robot
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
What happens when one of the twentieth century's most incisive Western minds turns his gaze upon the ancient civilisations of Asia? The Lotus and the Robot chronicles Arthur Koestler's journeys through India and Japan, presenting a rigorous and often provocative interrogation of the Eastern philosophies — from Gandhian asceticism and yoga to Zen Buddhism and Japanese modernism — that had captured the Western imagination in the post-war decades. Koestler argues with characteristic intellectual sharpness that the romanticised vision of Eastern mysticism offers no viable antidote to the spiritual crises of the modern West, dissecting the promises of enlightenment with the same unflinching analytical precision he brought to his landmark political fiction. Written in a tone that is at once erudite and combative, this work stands as a significant, if controversial, contribution to cross-cultural philosophy and the literature of ideas. Koestler's prose — lucid, fearless, and relentlessly questioning — challenges both the complacent Western seeker and the uncritical devotee of Eastern thought, making The Lotus and the Robot an enduring and deeply unsettling meditation on what humanity truly seeks when it looks beyond its own horizon.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Hutchinson of London
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
What happens when one of the twentieth century's most incisive Western minds turns his gaze upon the ancient civilisations of Asia? The Lotus and the Robot chronicles Arthur Koestler's journeys through India and Japan, presenting a rigorous and often provocative interrogation of the Eastern philosophies — from Gandhian asceticism and yoga to Zen Buddhism and Japanese modernism — that had captured the Western imagination in the post-war decades. Koestler argues with characteristic intellectual sharpness that the romanticised vision of Eastern mysticism offers no viable antidote to the spiritual crises of the modern West, dissecting the promises of enlightenment with the same unflinching analytical precision he brought to his landmark political fiction. Written in a tone that is at once erudite and combative, this work stands as a significant, if controversial, contribution to cross-cultural philosophy and the literature of ideas. Koestler's prose — lucid, fearless, and relentlessly questioning — challenges both the complacent Western seeker and the uncritical devotee of Eastern thought, making The Lotus and the Robot an enduring and deeply unsettling meditation on what humanity truly seeks when it looks beyond its own horizon.