Arthur Koestler

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Arthur Koestler - British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983)

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This meant avoidance of the sort of confrontation with Soviet power advocated by Arthur Koestler and Manus Sperber, but Camus also opposed the sort of accommodation to Marxist dogma advocated by the early Andre Malraux and the later Sartre.

Sartre and Camus: the yoke of enlightenment by Horowitz, Irving Louis / Modern Age

Such a capacity rests on what Arthur Koestler called "the doctrine of unshaken foundations"--the overwhelming, superior moral importance attributed to the ends, which allow the individual to overlook, or altogether dismiss, the human costs of their pursuit.

Clinging to faith: public intellectuals and the God that failed by Hollander, Paul / The National Interest

In his theory of creativity as bisociation, Arthur Koestler wrote: "When two independent matrices of perception or reasoning interact with each other the result .

Saint Clair Cemin: Brent Sikkema by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International

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