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The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973

Index The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973

The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973 is a book by Arthur Koestler. [1]

38 relations: A. D. Peters, André Malraux, Anthony Grey, Arthur Koestler, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Charles A. Reich, Cheltenham, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Desmond Morris, Dialectic, Edgar Morin, Edinburgh, Gordon Rattray Taylor, Hutchinson (publisher), Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Kingston, Ontario, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marrakesh, Martin Ebon, NBC, New Statesman, New York City, Parapsychological Association, Paul Gauguin, Queen's University, Reykjavík, Sonning Prize, Stephen Toulmin, Stockholm, Telepathy, The Observer, The Political Quarterly, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, University of Copenhagen, Vienna, World Psychiatric Association.

A. D. Peters

Augustus Dudley Peters (1892 – 1973) was a British literary agent.

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André Malraux

André Malraux DSO (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs.

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Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey OBE (born 5 July 1938) is a British journalist and author.

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Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler, (Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist.

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

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Boris Spassky

Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Charles A. Reich

Charles A. Reich (born May 20, 1928) is an American legal and social scholar as well as writer who was a Professor at Yale Law School when he wrote the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.

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Cheltenham Literature Festival

The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, a large-scale international festival of literature held every year in October in the spa town of Cheltenham, and part of Cheltenham Festivals: also responsible for the Jazz, Music and Science Festivals that run every year.

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Desmond Morris

Desmond John Morris (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology.

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Dialectic

Dialectic or dialectics (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue), also known as the dialectical method, is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.

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Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin (born Edgar Nahoum on 8 July 1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist who has been internationally recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought" (pensée complexe), and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology, ecology, education, and systems biology.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Gordon Rattray Taylor

Gordon Rattray Taylor (11 January 1911 – 7 December 1981) was a popular British author and journalist.

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Hutchinson (publisher)

Hutchinson began as Hutchinson & Co.

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Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt

Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (15 June 1928 – 2 June 2018) was an Austrian ethnologist in the field of human ethology.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

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Marrakesh

Marrakesh (or; مراكش Murrākuš; ⴰⵎⵓⵔⴰⴽⵓⵛ Meṛṛakec), also known by the French spelling Marrakech, is a major city of the Kingdom of Morocco.

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Martin Ebon

Martin Ebon (May 27, 1917 – February 11, 2006) was a German American author of non-fiction books from the paranormal to politics.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Parapsychological Association

The Parapsychological Association (PA) was formed in 1957 as a professional society for parapsychologists following an initiative by Joseph B. Rhine.

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Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist.

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Queen's University

Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.

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Sonning Prize

The Sonning Prize (Sonningprisen) is a Danish culture prize awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to European culture.

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Stephen Toulmin

Stephen Edelston Toulmin (25 March 1922 – 4 December 2009) was a British philosopher, author, and educator.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Telepathy

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Political Quarterly

The Political Quarterly is a British political journal co-founded in 1930 by Leonard Woolf, the husband of Virginia Woolf, and William A. Robson.

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The Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961, and is published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) (Københavns Universitet) is the oldest university and research institution in Denmark.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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World Psychiatric Association

The World Psychiatric Association is an international umbrella organisation of psychiatric societies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heel_of_Achilles:_Essays_1968–1973

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