ISBN: 0330230018
Author: COLIN WILSON
Language: English
Publisher: Pan Books; New Impression edition (1970)
Pages: 336
Category: Psychology & Counseling
Subcategory: Health
Rating: 4.1
Votes: 167
Size Fb2: 1744 kb
Size ePub: 1564 kb
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The Outsider is a 1956 book by English writer Colin Wilson
The Outsider is a 1956 book by English writer Colin Wilson
The OUTSIDER, first published in 1956 when Colin Wilson was only twenty-four, is a prophetic book as well as a literary tour de force.
The OUTSIDER, first published in 1956 when Colin Wilson was only twenty-four, is a prophetic book as well as a literary tour de force. By tracing, analyzing and giving a context to the disaffection and struggle of creative thinkers from William Blake to Ernest Hemingway, Wilson anticipated many developments of the 1960s and 1970s. The trajectory of Outsider consciousness led naturally to the rising interest in Eastern philosophy, the human potential movement, and the proliferation of techniques designed to help individuals transcend a sense of alienation from self and society.
FREE shipping on qualifying offers. The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament.
About Colin Wilson: Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Wilson's works after The Outsider focused on positive aspects of human psychology, such as peak experiences and the narrowness of consciousness.
The first book in the Outsider cycle by Wilson, intended to outline his concept of the New Existentialism (the idea which underlies all of his work), and probably still his most famous work. Probably also the best starting place. It has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Chinese and Swedish. 2. Religion and the Rebel. The second book in the Outsider cycle. Translated into Arabic and Japanese. 3. The Age of Defeat (US: The Stature of Man).
And so we might speak of a ‘pain threshold’, a Year threshold’, a ‘misery threshold’, and find it quickly overpassed by the consciousness of some individuals, but lying too high in others to be often reached by their consciousness.
The Outsider hardly seemed to be the stuff of even modest success
The Outsider hardly seemed to be the stuff of even modest success. It was a bizarre concoction of philosophy and literary criticism, purporting to be about existentialism, and packed full of quotes and references to Sartre, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Gurdjieff. As for Wilson himself, his eviction to the literary wilderness in 1957 proved to be irrevocable.
work, and Colin Wilson’s landmark book encapsulated a character found time and time again: the outsider. A fascinating study blending philosophy, psychology, and literature, Wilson’s seminal work is a must-have for those who are fascinated by the character of the outsider.
Authors like Sartre, Kafka, Hemingway, and Dostoyevsky, as well as artists like Van Gogh and Nijinsky, delved for a deeper understanding of the human condition in their work, and Colin Wilson’s landmark book encapsulated a character found time and time again: the outsider. Luminously intelligent.
He wrote of Mr. Colin Wilson’s remarkable book in the Sunday Times: Bubble of the year: The Outsider (Gollancz), in which an earnest young . Otherwise Mr. Wilson’s book had a very great success, and well deserved it. Colin Wilson’s remarkable book in the Sunday Times: Bubble of the year: The Outsider (Gollancz), in which an earnest young man imparts his discovery to the world that genius is prone to Weltschmerz
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