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| Original Title: | The Act of Creation |
| ISBN: | 0140191917 (ISBN13: 9780140191912) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Arthur Koestler
Paperback | Pages: 752 pages Rating: 4.25 | 406 Users | 32 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Act of Creation |
| Author | : | Arthur Koestler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 752 pages |
| Published | : | December 7th 1990 by Arkana/Penguin (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Psychology. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Art. Science. History |
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Startlingly lucid account of our most wondrous and irrational faculty: creativity. In the space of a few chapters, Koestler throws light on the question of humor: what makes a joke funny? And why do we, unlike every other animal, laugh? But this conception, while the most illuminating view of humor I've read, is only the start of a much grander theory of our most profoundly human activities. He finds the unifying thread of the three great creative acts of mankind: Humor, Art, and Scientific Inventiveness. One of those books that changes your understanding of consciousness forever.Rating Out Of Books The Act of Creation
Ratings: 4.25 From 406 Users | 32 ReviewsRate Out Of Books The Act of Creation
Read this book in college and found it one of the most inspiring books regarding creativity and the connections to our world. Changed my life.via Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet (cca. od 17. minúty)
Enjoyed this almost as much as TGITM, will definitely read again. Koestler likes to work with analogies a lot, sometimes stretching them too far, IE, the graphs linking humor and convergent realities, which were perhaps funnier than the run of the mill jokes he cites at whim.
For starters I've never read this book cover-to-cover, but have read most of it at least once over the past couple years. In some 700 pages Koestler makes the case for a new way of understanding the relationship between art and science. He does this in a most dense and thorough way that I could not begin to explain here. Suffice it to say it is among the most difficult and most interesting writing I have ever come across. He loads his writing with fascinating examples and illustrating facts that
This book took me almost 3 months to get through. It is an amazing book no doubt, the reason it took me so long (besides work) is that it is so dense at times, that 10 or 20 pages suffices for a few days to ponder on. I am grateful to this book for examining the aspect of creation in humans. I am especially grateful for the explanation of the idea of the bisocation of matrices which lead to discoveries and mind expanding works of art. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the mind of
DNF, I'm sure there are better, newer books on the subject. It is one of the original works on the subject, but it is showing its age.
This is one of the finest books I have ever read. The act of creation is the bisociation of previously independent matrices of thought. Koestler is one of those amazing polymaths who ranges across the sciences, the arts, the humanities, the history of all of these things, and has got an awful lot of things figured out. It's not a breezy read, but it's astonishing and worth your time.
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