Description
A landmark work of existential criticism, this book examines the modern individual who feels estranged from society, conventional values, and the routines of everyday life. Through readings of writers and thinkers including Dostoevsky, Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, and Hesse, it explores alienation, spiritual crisis, freedom, and the search for a more meaningful way to live. Combining literary analysis with philosophical reflection, it asks whether the outsider’s isolation is merely a symptom of disconnection—or the beginning of deeper insight. Provocative and wide-ranging, it remains a compelling introduction to the tensions at the heart of modern consciousness.
Available Editions
paperback
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published Dec 6, 2001
320 pages
ISBN: 9780753814321
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Details
First Published
1956
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Outsider by Colin Wilson.