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Title	:	The Act of Creation
Author	:	Arthur Koestler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 752 pages
Published	:	December 7th 1990 by Arkana/Penguin (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Psychology. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Art. Science. History

The Act of Creation

Arthur Koestler

Paperback | Pages: 752 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 406 Users | 32 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	The Act of Creation
ISBN:	0140191917 (ISBN13: 9780140191912)
Edition Language:	English

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Great treatise on scientific and artistic creativity, and their overlaps. Amazingly, still very relevant today!

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

Here is one of my most treasured books. Without fail, I take it off the shelf and plunge right in to its insigntful observations and gentle humor. A valuable resource for the mind of an artist.

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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Book 1 is a lucid and well developed theory about the nature of creativity in the arts and science.Book 2 is a poorly conceived attempt to extend these ideas into biology and psychology. The analogy is often strained and the science has not aged gracefully. There is a long section dedicated to beating the dead horse of behavioralism, for instance. Here the editors let AK down. Presumably, this is the reason the book has gone out of print. There are useful insights, such as his anticipation of