Colin Wilson

Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism, and maintained his life work was that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism.

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