Reviews for Weavers of Wisdom: Women of the Twentieth Century

The average rating for Weavers of Wisdom: Women of the Twentieth Century based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-29 00:00:00 Chris Godfrey This ended up being about religious women. Definitely not what I was expecting.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-28 00:00:00 matt hutton For starters I've never read this book cover-to-cover, but have read most of it at least once over the past couple years. In some 700 pages Koestler makes the case for a new way of understanding the relationship between art and science. He does this in a most dense and thorough way that I could not begin to explain here. Suffice it to say it is among the most difficult and most interesting writing I have ever come across. He loads his writing with fascinating examples and illustrating facts that keep you engaged throughout. I often go back to reading this book in my free time, or between other books. I would strongly NOT recommend this book for the general public. I have a copy that states on the back flap that this was in 1967 assigned reading to incoming students at Radcliffe College; I cannot think of many graduate students that would have gotten much more from this that boredom and frustration. It would be of interest to people with significant background in the social science, and possibly natural sciences. It would also be of interest to people who study the history of ideas. The book is the second book in the unofficial trilogy of Koestler's works, beginning with The Sleepwalkers and ending with Ghost in the Machine. Act of Creation is itself divided in two: "Book I: The Art of Discovery and the Discoveries of Art"; and "Book II: Habit and Originality". The each book explains the same material, with the first taking a broader scope, and the second working "from the ground up" to explain the same ideas in much more technical language.