The Outsider

By: Colin Wilson

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Paperback | 1 March 2002 | Edition Number 2

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The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind
''Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation'' GUARDIAN

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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Fiction Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Psychology Social Psychology The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality Non-Fiction Prose Miscellaneous Items Sociology & Anthropology

Introduction: The Outsider Twenty Years On	p. 1
The Country of the Blind	p. 11
World Without Values	p. 27
The Romantic Outsider	p. 47
The Attempt to Gain Control	p. 70
The Pain Threshold	p. 107
The Question of Identity	p. 147
The Great Synthesis	p. 178
The Outsider as Visionary	p. 203
Breaking the Circuit	p. 247
Notes	p. 283
Postscript to The Outsider	p. 289
Postscripts to 2001 Edition	p. 303
Index	p. 319
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