Insight And Outlook: An Inquiry Into The Common Foundations Of Science, Art And Social Ethics
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good , ex-library
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
A landmark work of intellectual history and philosophy, Insight and Outlook presents Arthur Koestler's ambitious unified theory of creative thought, arguing that science, art, and social ethics all share a common psychological and structural foundation. At the heart of the work is Koestler's concept of bisociation — the collision of two habitually incompatible matrices of thought — which he illustrates as the engine behind the comic, the aesthetic, and the scientific discovery alike. Written with the rigor of a scholar and the wit of a novelist, the text draws on an extraordinary range of examples, from the mechanics of a joke to the breakthroughs of Archimedes, to demonstrate that human creativity is governed by a single, identifiable logic. Koestler argues with bold conviction that the artificial boundaries separating the arts, the sciences, and ethics are not only misleading but intellectually impoverishing, and that a true understanding of the human mind demands a synthesis of all three. This sweeping and original inquiry remains a foundational text for anyone interested in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, or the nature of human creativity.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, Macmillan & Co. Ltd
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good , ex-library
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
A landmark work of intellectual history and philosophy, Insight and Outlook presents Arthur Koestler's ambitious unified theory of creative thought, arguing that science, art, and social ethics all share a common psychological and structural foundation. At the heart of the work is Koestler's concept of bisociation — the collision of two habitually incompatible matrices of thought — which he illustrates as the engine behind the comic, the aesthetic, and the scientific discovery alike. Written with the rigor of a scholar and the wit of a novelist, the text draws on an extraordinary range of examples, from the mechanics of a joke to the breakthroughs of Archimedes, to demonstrate that human creativity is governed by a single, identifiable logic. Koestler argues with bold conviction that the artificial boundaries separating the arts, the sciences, and ethics are not only misleading but intellectually impoverishing, and that a true understanding of the human mind demands a synthesis of all three. This sweeping and original inquiry remains a foundational text for anyone interested in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, or the nature of human creativity.