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Colin Wilson’s Outsider Cycl is the collective label applied to the seven philosophy books, outlining his New Existentialism, which were published between the years 1956 and 1966:• The Outsider (1956)• Religion and the Rebel (1957)• The Age ofMoreColin Wilson’s Outsider Cycl is the collective label applied to the seven philosophy books, outlining his New Existentialism, which were published between the years 1956 and 1966:• The Outsider (1956)• Religion and the Rebel (1957)• The Age of Defeat (aka The Stature of Man) (1959)• The Strength to Dream: literature and the imagination (1962)• Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)• Beyond the Outsider: the philosophy of the future (1965)• Introduction to the New Existentialism (aka The New Existentialism) (1966)Any connection between the books went unnoticed by the (mostly) hostile critics of the day until Wilson announced in his Preface to book 6 that: “These books are closely linked—so closely that it is impossible for any one of them to be understood without the others” (Beyond the Outsider, p.11).Colin Stanley examines these titles closely, provides an essay on each, assesses the critical appraisal and appends full bibliographical details (extracted from his The Colin Wilson Bibliography, 1956-2010) but admits that, because the books themselves are eminently readable, attempts at elucidation can often have the opposite result. For those requiring further clarification, however, Wilson himself has written an Afterword, explaining the Outsider Cycle, nearly 45 years on. Colin Wilsons Outsider Cycle: a guide for students by Colin Stanley
