Janus: A Summing Up (Used)

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ISBN 0330258427|Paperback|356 pages|1979|Pan Books

Janus: A Summing Up takes a look at life sciences and their philosophic speculation. It looks at the mind and how it not necessarily leads us to a better world.

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ISBN 0330258427|Paperback|356 pages|1979|Pan Books

Janus: A Summing Up takes a look at life sciences and their philosophic speculation. It looks at the mind and how it not necessarily leads us to a better world.

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The most adventourous, polymathic – and readable – scientific populariser of the age offers in Janus: A Summing Up of a quarter of a century’s study and speculations on the life sciences and their philosophic implications. Koestler has an interesting theme to propose. It is this; the human brain has developed a terrible biological flaw, such that it is working now against the survival of the race. Something has “snapped” inside the brain. It is no longer necessarily a function which will lead us to a better world, but something demonic, possessed, perhaps even evil.

The anguished humanity of Koestler’s concepts and the lucid energy of his style command respect. Here is one of the major political “experiencers” and most widely informed spirits of the age turning to the crux of human survival on a ravaged planet. The title of the book tells not only of a central allegory of division in the human species. It stands for the rare tension on Koestler’s discourses: between desolation and zest, between darkness and noon.

Author:

Arthur Koestler

ISBN:

0330258427

Binding:

Paperback

Publisher:

Pan Books

Pages:

356

Year of Publication:

1979

Edition:

First

Condition:

Used

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

About the Author

The author was a Hungarian British Jewish author and journalist. He was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. He was an avid writer and wrote many books. Some of his titles in non-fiction include The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage, The Case of the Midwife Toad and Suicide of a Nation. His fictional works include The Gladiators, Darkness at Noon and Thieves in the Night.

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