{"product_id":"janus-arthur-koestler-9781939438959","title":"Janus: A Summing Up","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most adventourous, polymathic - and readable - scientific populariser of the age offers in Janus a summing up of a quarter of a century's study and speculations on the life sciences and their philosophic implications. Koestler has an interesting theme to propose. It is this; the human brain has developed a terrible biological flaw, such that it is working now against the survival of the race. Something has \"snapped\" inside the brain. It is no longer necessarily a function which will lead us to a better world, but something demonic, possessed, perhaps even evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anguished humanity of Koestler's concepts and the lucid energy of his style comman respect. Here is one of the major political \"experiencers\" an dmost widely informed spirits of the age turning to the crux of human survival on a ravaged planet. The title of the book tells not only of a central allegory of division in the human species. It stands for the rare tension on Koestler's discourses: between desolation and zest, between darkness and noon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur Koestler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939438950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939438959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One 70 Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Arthur Koestler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048547643647,"sku":"9781939438959","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34a9c614-2413-48eb-8306-a569df42fb66.jpg?v=1684996406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/janus-arthur-koestler-9781939438959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}