Colin Henry Wilson:
(26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013).
English existentialist philosopher-novelist.
He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books.
Wilson called his philosophy “new existentialism” or “phenomenological existentialism”, and maintained his life work was “that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism”.
The Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality. ’He sees too deep and too much,’ and what he sees is essentialy chaos. He is the one man who knows he is sick in a civilisation that doesn’t know it is sick.
