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Here, for the first time in paperback, is Colin Wilson's second book, successor to his acclaimed The Outsider. In it he answers the charge that the Outsider is just an intellectual fad, showing instead that he is a powerful symbol of rebellion against materialist society and a product of the lack of spiritual tension, or vision, in all declining civilisations. In a series of studies ranging from Bernard Shaw to Wittgenstein he probes deeper into the psychology of the Outsider while at the same time establishing the historical and cultural background. In these examples we see the development of Colin Wilson's central concern; how can man extend his consciousness? - a concern which he has developed constantly over the ensuing twenty-five years and more. In a new introduction the author, while looking back at his younger self with some wry criticism mingled with approval, affirms his belief in the Outsider as a contemporary symbol. The only difference now, he feels, is that the Outsider has never had it so good.
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Timothy Crane
reviewed Religion and the rebel on June 21, 2013 Religion and the rebel
I read this after reading The Outsider; I bought it in Reigate in a second-hand bookshop in 1968. He gives a lot more autobiographical detail in this book which was slated after all the hype with The Outsider! I even have a TLS review of the times, and I quote: "His formal education had been slight. Having read it [The Outsider] some people thought it mere rubbish. Others feared that overpraise might go to the young man's head. This fear he more than once seemed to justify by making public statements in which it was not impossible to detect. . megalomania." He or she goes onto say why RATR is even worse than The Outsider. The reviewer remained anonymous! Herbert Read praised Religion and the Rebel. I lapped up the summaries of figures such as, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and Whitehead. For me reading it in my 20s, it was all exciting stuff. In sequence, I read The Age of Defeat, afterwards, The Strength to Dream, soon followed by his sf Mind Parasites and The Philosopher's Stone. Incidentally a appreciative study of his output is Colin Wilson: The Man & His Mind by Howard F Dossor publ in 1990.
Colin Wilson died in hospital, age 82, on 5 Dec 2013.
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