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Random House (1978), Edition: 1st American ed, 354 pages
Description
Janus is both a summing up and continuation of Koestler's work over the past twenty-five years, since he turned from politics to the sciences of life- or more precisely, to the 'evolution, creativity and pathology of the human mind'. The insights gained on that long journey are here assembled in a coherent and comprehensive synthesis, and in the last part of the book, he offers us a tantalizing 'glance through the key-hole' from subatomic physics to metaphysics.
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1978
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0394500520 / 9780394500522
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FB Underlining and marginalia. A summation of Koestler's 25-year work on the evolution, creativity and pathology of the human mind. What went wrong with our species? Fascinating.