The Outsider

Wilson, Colin

ISBN 10: 0753814323 / ISBN 13: 9780753814321

Published by W&N, 2001

About this Item

2001. Revised ed. Paperback. The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Outsider
• Publisher: W&N
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753814323
• ISBN 13: 9780753814321
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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 rationalized 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 past four decades years has made The Outsider any less relevant; it remains the seminal work on this most persistent of modern-day preoccupations.

About the Author

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.