...Theodore Ropp The Yogi and the Commissar . By Koestler Arthur . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. viii , 247 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 BOOKS The Yogi and the Commissar. By Arthur Koestler. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. Pp...

...Paul Welsh Insight and Outlook . By Koestler Arthur . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. xi , 442 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 483 challenging. It is significant, too, that Winfield s plan begins, not with Chinese...

...Theodore Ropp The Invisible Writing: Being the second volume of Arrow in the Blue: An Autobiography . By Koestler Arthur . New York : Macmillan Company , 1954 . Pp. 431 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 286 The South Atlantic Quarterly occupies...

...Theodore Ropp Arrow in the Blue: An Autobiography . By Koestler Arthur . New York : Macmillan , 1952 . Pp. viii , 353 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 335 the prejudiced strictures of Mrs. Trollope. While Mr. Putnam has se­ lected...

..., was reaching a population of fifteen hundred. Louis j. budd The Trail of the Dinosaur: and Other Essays. By Arthur Koestler. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. viii, 253. $3.50. These chips from Arthur Koestler s busy shop may be ignored by all but his disciples. They are essays, lectures, and radio...

...Edward L. Galligan Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Usefulness of Arthur Koestler s Theory of Jokes Edward L. Galligan I would like to discuss the theory of humor that Arthur Koestler developed in The Act of Creation. It is the most comprehensive and most helpful theory...

...Reed Merrill Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Ideology and the Individual Darkness at Noon Forty Years Later Reed Merrill So foolish is history. Michael Polanyi Tout le systeme s effondre aussitot que vous introduisez le simple respect pour I individu. Arthur Koestler Anthony...

... for fundamental human rights. Arthur Koestler s participation in the European Communist movement furnished him with the dynamic material and the creative incentive to tell the appall­ ing truth about Communism. If the war against Communism is not sufficiently reflected in our fiction of the past two decades...

..., was reaching a population of fifteen hundred. Louis j. budd The Trail of the Dinosaur: and Other Essays. By Arthur Koestler. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. viii, 253. $3.50. These chips from Arthur Koestler s busy shop may be ignored by all but his disciples. They are essays, lectures, and radio...

...Kenneth W. Clark Judaism and Christianity . By Parkes James . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1948 . Pp. 222 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 485 obscured by the variety of uses to which Koestler puts the term. That the self...

... Koestler. New York: Macmillan, 1952. Pp. viii, 353. $5.00. This is fairly routine stuff for the anticommunist pile. It has all the ingredients of the recipe which was partly concocted by Mr. Koestler s earlier books incredible adventures, an exotic background, and a hash of psychoanalysis and literary...

.... Mr. Henry W. Adams has recorded with relaxed thoroughness the modest achievements of amateur and professional per­ formers in a period when newly founded Montgomery, Alabama, was reaching a population of fifteen hundred. Louis j. budd The Trail of the Dinosaur: and Other Essays. By Arthur Koestler...

... The Invisible Writing: Being the second volume of Arrow in the Blue: An Autobiography. By Arthur Koestler. New York: Mac­ millan Company, 1954. Pp. 431. $5.00. The first volume of Mr. Koestler s autobiography, Arrow in the Bluey told his story to the age of twenty-six. At that point he had become a secret...

...Bernard Peach Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead . As recorded by Price Lucien . Boston : Little, Brown and Company . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 288 The South Atlantic Quarterly Exile is the story of Mr. Koestler s life after Hitler came to power...

... thought he was trying to say. What I am trying to say is that this particular volume is dull, ponder­ ous, and pretentious. Most of the adventures covered in Arrow in the Blue Mr. Koestler s student days in Vienna, his experiences in Pales­ tine and as a German newspaper correspondent, and his conversion...

... and centripetal forces of integration. We are talking about a particular understanding of systems, first provided by Arthur Koestler (1967) and widely accepted today in com- mons theory (Ostrom 2009). This includes multidisciplinary complexity thinking, for example, in ecology (Giampietro 2005), management...

... are open to judgment. They cannot be ex­ cused or dismissed. Pretended or genuine, the conviction of political speech mirrors, in Arthur Koestler s phrase, the pathology of cog­ nitive structures 1 an extraordinary intensity of conviction that emanates from singlemindedness, devotion, or monomania. Pre­...

... idealism, has become a kind of obsession think of D. H. Law­ rence, Forster, Koestler, Orwell, Trilling, Penn Warren, and Mary McCarthy, to name a few. Lawrence is of special interest to us here. He argued that idealism of any sort, Christian or Communist, was disastrous because it was abstract, mental...

..., it is to be noted that Fung Yu-lan as an historian accepts an economic interpretation (p. 336). The bases of China s communism are not, it would seem, solely Russian. Paul H. Clyde. Insight and Outlook. By Arthur Koestler. New York: The Mac­ millan Company, 1949. Pp. xi, 442. $5.00. The argument of this book...

..., for example, Arthur Koestler s Rubashov (in Darkness at Noon) is taken into custody, the given of his everyday life is radically altered.22 He undergoes what Deleuze and Guattari call an incorporeal" transformation and becomes a political prisoner.23 When Rubashov says I in prison, he realizes...