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Koestler, Orwell and the inversion of logic.(George Orwell, Arthur Koestler)
IN THIS ARTICLE I intend to discuss the epistemological inversion that develops in the mentality of Rubashov, the main character in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. And I will show how it is connected to the logical construction of the basic legal principle of the Stalinist soviet justice administration. For the analysis I have introduced the technical term epistemological inversion, on the analogy of Michael Polanyi's notion of moral inversion, which he described and analysed in his book Personal Knowledge. I would like i to show epistemological inversion as a concomitant and a complement to moral inversion.
In Part Two, chapters 11 to 15 of Personal ...
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