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Koestler

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Koest·ler  (kstlr, ks-), Arthur 1905-1983.
Hungarian-born British writer whose novel Darkness at Noon (1940) portrays his disillusionment with Communism. His nonfiction works include The Sleepwalkers (1959) and The Ghost in the Machine (1967).

Koestler [ˈkɜːstlə]
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(Biographies / Koestler, Arthur (1905-1983) M, Britishnational of birth: Hungarian, WRITING: writer) Arthur. 1905-83, British writer, born in Hungary. Of his early antitotalitarian novels Darkness at Noon (1940) is outstanding. His later works, The Sleepwalkers (1959), The Act of Creation (1964), and The Ghost in the Machine (1967) reflect his interest in science, philosophy, and psychology. He committed suicide
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Noun1.Koestler - British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983)


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Koestler, director of the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute.
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.
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.
 
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