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The Outsider. [A study of a human type.]

The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. First published more than thirty 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, and "stands for Truth." Born into a world without perspective, where others simply drift through life, the Outsider creates his own set of rules and 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. Through the works and lives of various artists-including Kafka, Camus, Eliot, Hemingway, Hesse, Lawrence, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, Shaw, Blake, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevski-Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and 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 Wilson's conviction that "a new religion is needed."

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  • "The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. First published more than thirty 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, and "stands for Truth." Born into a world without perspective, where others simply drift through life, the Outsider creates his own set of rules and 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. Through the works and lives of various artists-including Kafka, Camus, Eliot, Hemingway, Hesse, Lawrence, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, Shaw, Blake, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevski-Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and 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 Wilson's conviction that "a new religion is needed.""@en
  • "An alienated young man attempts to find himself through an examination of modern philosophy."
  • ""The seminal book on the alienation of modern man"--Cover subtitle."@en
  • "As relevant today as when it originally published, THE OUTSIDER explores the mindset of characters who exist on the margins, and the artists who take them there. Published to immense acclaim, THE OUTSIDER helped to make popular the literary concept of existentialism. 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. How does he influence society? And how does society influ."@en

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  • "Der Outsider"
  • "L'homme en dehors"
  • "El desplazado : the outsider"
  • "L'homme en dehors (The outsider)"
  • "The outsider : Unabridged : Including a new postscript for this edition : (3. Print.)"
  • "L'Homme en dehors. (The Outsider)"
  • "아웃사이더"
  • "al- Lāmuntamī"
  • "The Outsider. [A study of a human type.]"@en
  • "Der Outsider : Eine Diagnose des Menschen unserer Zeit"
  • "The Outsider"
  • "The Outsider"@en
  • "El desplazado"
  • "De buitenstaander : een onderzoek naar de aard van de geestelijke ziekte der mensheid in het midden van de twintigste eeuw"
  • "Autsaidŏ"
  • "L'Homme en dehors"
  • "El desplazado = The outsider"@es
  • "Der outsider : eine Diagnose des Menschen unserer Zeit"
  • "The Outsider, etc"@en
  • "Outsider"@pl
  • "Outsider"@en
  • "The outsider, with a new postscript"@en
  • "Der Outsider : eine Diagnose des Menschen unserer Zeit"
  • "El desplazado = The outsider / [Vers. española: Carmen Castro]"@es
  • "The outsider. [An inquiry into the nature of the sickness of mankind in the mid-twentieth century.]"@en
  • "The outsider"@es
  • "The outsider"@en
  • "The outsider"

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