title: Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
author:  David Cesarani 
description: Correcting historians' omission of Koestler's (1905-1983) role in communism's fall, British historian Cesarani places the author of Darkness at Noon in the front ranks of Cold Warriors. In addition, he deals with not only Koestler's later interest in science (and the paranormal), but also his contradictory and profoundly flawed character. While Koestler mythologized himself in his multivolume autobiography, and muzzled his official biographer in 1982, Cesarani has had the benefit of Koestler's complete literary estate, his FBI files and the KGB's notorious "Special Archive" to detail the writer's political and intellectual wanderings. Cesarani charts Koestler's political odyssey from his early involvement with Zionism in Palestine in the 1920s through his membership in the Communist Party in Nazi Berlin and Civil War Spain to his denunciation of Stalinism in England during WWII. During his Cold War notoriety, however, the writer was embarking on a new course into biology and physics, and on a search for a rational philosophy to replace Marxism. Whatever Koestler's shifting intellectual creeds, Cesarani underscores his Jewish identity, which Koestler consistently underplayed yet could not ignore. In more disturbing revelations, besides Koestler's lifelong womanizing and three marriages (the last ended in dual suicide), Cesarani uncovers the details of one sexual assault and concludes that Koestler was a "serial rapist." In chronicling Koestler's remarkable political journey, public resolution and private wrongs, Cesarani's biography manages to be both authoritative and ambivalent. (Dec.) <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: HOMELES 
  MIND 
  MODERNIZATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
  PETER BERGER 
  BRIGITTE BERGER 
  HANSFRIED KELLNER 
  
  THE 
  HOMELESS 
  MIND 
  PETER ROBINSON COLLEGE 
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive 
  in 2019 with funding from 
  Kahle/Austin Foundation 
  https://archive.org/details/homelessmindmodeOOOOberg 
  
  THE 
  HOMELESS 
  MIND 
  Modernization 
  and Consciousness 
  PETER L. BERGER 
  BRIGITTE BERGER 
  HANSFRIED KELLNER 
  Vintage Books 
  A Division of Random House 
  New York 
  
  VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, February 1974 
  Copyright © 1973 by Peter Berger, Brigitte Berger, 
  Hansfried Kellner 
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American 
  Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States 
  by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously 
  in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, 
  Toronto. Originally published by Random House, Inc., 
  in 1973- 
  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following 
  for permission to reprint material in this book: 
  Doubleday & Co., Inc., and Longmans—“The Cathedral” 
  from Night of 