The ghost in the machine.
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1967
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Genetic psychology.; Human evolution.
Description: With this new work, Arthur Koestler completes a cycle which started with The Sleepwalkers and continued with The Act of Creation. They were concerned with scientific discovery and artistic inspiration - the glory of man; The Ghost in the Machine culminates in a discussion of the predicament of man - the pathology of the human mind. The streak of insanity which runs through the history of our species points, he argues, to the possibility that somewhere along the line of its ascent to prominence something has gone wrong.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [359]-365.