Outlook & Insight

The title of this volume, "Outlook and Insight", is deliberately evocative of Koestler''s "Insight and Outlook" (1949), an investigation of the similarities he found among and within art, science, and social ethics. In this study of Koestler through his early novel "The Gladiators", his particular interest in revolutions via "The Law of Detours" is the focus of Outlook (Part 1). Those reflections ...