Colin Wilson | |
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 Wilson in Cornwall, 1984 | |
| Born | Colin Henry Wilson 26 June 1931 Leicester, Leicestershire, England |
| Died | 5 December 2013 (aged 82) St Austell, Cornwall, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | Active: 1956–2013, 20th century |
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| Literary movement | Angry young men |
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Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal,[1] eventually writing more than a hundred books.[2] Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism",[3] and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".[4]
- ^ "Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, dies aged 82" Archived 4 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine BBC News, 13 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- ^ Gary Lachman, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson, Penguin (2016), xiv
- ^ Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966), p.9
- ^ Quote from Philosophy Now, Obituary of Colin Wilson, here (link) Archived 4 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 2014.