Super Consciousness
by Colin Wilson | 
Escape from Evil
by Ernest Becker | 
From Shakespeare to Existentialism
by Walter Arnold Kaufmann | 
Existentialism
by Thomas Flynn | 
Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton | 
The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness
by Jean-Paul Sartre | 
Brainstorms
by Daniel C. Dennett |
To Have or to Be?
by Erich Fromm | 
Stay
by Jennifer Michael Hecht | 
Stoic Warriors
by Nancy Sherman | 
Irrational Man
by William Barrett |
The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms
by Eric Hoffer | 
The Birth and Death of Meaning
by Ernest Becker | 
Existentialists and Mystics
by Iris Murdoch | 
How We Think
by John Dewey |
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
by Donald Robertson |
Existentialism
by Walter Kaufmann | 
The Analysis of Mind
by Bertrand Russell | 
The Passion of the Western Mind
by Richard Tarnas |
The Discovery of the Mind
by Bruno Snell |
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".