Add this copy of Act of Creation (Piper) to cart. $15.44, good condition, Sold by Goldstone Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ammanford, CARMS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1970 by Macmillan.
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Add this copy of Act of Creation, the to cart. $158.70, very good condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1970 by The Danube Edition-Pan Books Ltd..
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Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: The Act of Creation is a brilliant and important analysis by a famous author of the artistic and scientific faculties of man, including humour. In this major study Arthur Koestler advances the theory that all creative activities-the conscious and unconscious processes underlying artistic originality, scientific discovery, and comic inspiration-have a basic pattern in common, which he attempts to define. He calls it "bisociative" thinking-a word he coined to distinguish the various routines of associative thinking from the creative leap which connects previously unconnected frames of references and makes us experience reality on several planes at once. He also suggests that phenomena analogous to creativity are manifested in various ways on various levels of the animal kingdom, from flatworms to chimpanzees, if the experimenter knows how to look for them. The dog trained by Pavlovian methods is given as little chance to display originality as the human robots of Brave New World. But under appropriate conditions, man and animal are shown to possess unsuspected creative resources. The problem of creativity is fundamental to the assessment of man's condition. The dominant trend in the last fifty years of academic psychology was to take a view of man which reduced him to the status of a conditioned automaton. "I believe, " Koestler writes, "that view to be depressingly true-but only up to a point. The argument of this book starts at the point where it ceases to be true. There are two ways of escaping our more or less automatized routines of thinking and behaving. The first is the plunge into dreaming or dream-like states, where the rules of rational thinking are suspended. The other way is also escape-from boredom, stagnation, intellectual predicaments and emotional frustrations-but an escape in the opposite direction; it is signalled by the spontaneous flash of insight which shows a familiar situation or event in a new light."
Add this copy of The Act of Creation to cart. $115.49, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Pan.
