The Outsider
The Outsider
Author: Colin Wilson
Desc: Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation creativity & the modern mind-set. First published over forty years ago it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual. The Outsider is an individual engaged in an intense self-exploration-a person who lives at the edge challenges cultural values & "stands for Truth." Born into a world without perspective where others simply drift thru life the Outsider creates his own set of rules & lives them in an unsympathetic environment. The relative handful of people who fulfilled Wilson's definition of the Outsider in the 1950s have now become a significant social force making Wilson's vision more relevant today than ever. Thru the works & lives of various artists--including Kafka Camus Eliot Hemingway Hesse Lawrence Van Gogh Nijinsky Shaw Blake Nietzsche & Dostoyevski--Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider his effect on society & society's effect on him. Wilson illuminates the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of Self but also the transformation of society as a whole. The book is essential for everyone who shares his conviction that "a new religion is needed".