Colin Wilson

The Outsider (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind

'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN

'Exhaustive, luminously intelligent' OBSERVER

THE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers. Wilson rationalised the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and defined those affected by it as a type: the outsider. Through the works and lives of various artists, including Kafka, Camus, Hemingway, Hesse, Lawrence, Van Gogh, Shaw, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, Wilson explored the psyche of the outsider, his effect on society and society's on him.

Nothing that has happened in the decades since has made THE OUTSIDER any less relevant; it remains the seminal work on this most persistent of modern-day preoccupations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399632362
• Artikelnr.: 72476028

Autorenporträt

Colin Wilson was a prominent philosopher and novelist. Wilson called his philosophy 'new existentialism'. He is perhaps best known for THE OUTSIDER. It has never been out of print and has been translated into over thirty languages.

Inhaltsangabe

The OutsiderForeword By Marilyn Ferguson
Introduction: The Outsider Twenty Years On
I. The Country of the Blind
II. World Without Values
III. The Romantic Outsider
IV. The Attempt to Gain Control
V. The Pain Threshold
VI. The Question of Identity
VII. The Great Synthesis . . .
VIII. The Outsider as Visionary
IX. Breaking the Circut
Notes
Postscript To The Outsider