Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

Biografia
Naixement	(en) Colin Henry Wilson 26 juny 1931 Leicester (Anglaterra)
Mort	5 desembre 2013 (82 anys) St Austell (Anglaterra) ^(en)
Causa de mort	pneumònia
Sepultura	Cornualla
Activitat
Camp de treball	Filosofia, psicologia, criminologia i ocultisme
Ocupació	escriptor, biògraf, escriptor de ciència-ficció, filòsof, guionista, autobiògraf, novel·lista, ufòleg, prosista
Activitat	1956 -
Gènere	Angry Young Men i literatura de no-ficció
Influències	Jean-Paul Sartre
Obra
Obres destacables (1956) The Outsider ^(en) (1971) The Occult: A History ^(en) (1980) The Book of Time ^(en)
Localització dels arxius	Col·leccions Especials i Arxius Universitaris de la Universitat de Victoria [ SC322] University of California, Riverside Library ^(en) Biblioteca Britànica Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham Information Services ^(en)
Lloc web	colinwilsonworld.co.uk

Colin Henry Wilson (Leicester, 26 juny de 1931 – Cornualla, 5 de desembre del 2013) va ser un filòsof i escriptor britànic. Els principals temes de la seva obra són la criminalitat i el misticisme. Colin Wilson es va convertir en un dels Joves Iracunds de la literatura britànica. Va contribuir a Declaration, una antologia de manifestos escrits per escriptors existencialistes, amb Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. Wilson i els seus amics Bill Hopkins i Stuart Holroyd, van ser un subgrup més interessats en els "valors religiosos" que en la política liberal o socialista. Els crítics de l'esquerra aviat els van considerar feixistes; el comentarista Kenneth Allsop els anomenà "els jutges".

Obres fonamentals

• The Outsider (1956)
• Religion and the Rebel (1957)
• "The Frenchman" (relat curt, Evening Standard 22 d'agost de 1957)
• The Age of Defeat (als Estats Units, The Stature of Man) (1959)
• Ritual in the Dark (1960)
• Encyclopedia of Murder (with Patricia Pitman, 1961)
• Adrift in Soho (1961)
• "Watching the Bird" (relat curt, Evening News 12 de setembre de 1961)
• "Uncle Tom and the Police Constable" (relat curt, Evening News 23 d'octubre de 1961)
• "He Could not Fail" (relat curt, Evening News 29 de desembre de 1961)
• The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1962)
• "Uncle and the Lion" (relat curt, Evening News 28 de setembre de 1962)
• "Hidden Bruise" (relat curt, Evening News December 3, 1962)
• Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
• The World of Violence (als Estats Units, The Violent World of Hugh Greene) (1963)
• Man Without a Shadow (als Estats Units, The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme) (1963)
• "The Wooden Cubes" (relat curt, Evening News 27 de juny de 1963)
• Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964)
• Brandy of the Damned (1964; posteriorment estès i reeditat com Chords and Discords/Colin Wilson On Music)
• Necessary Doubt (1964)
• Beyond the Outsider (1965)
• Eagle and Earwig (1965)
• Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (1966)
• Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)
• The Glass Cage (1966)
• The Mind Parasites (1967)
• Voyage to a Beginning (1969)
• A Casebook of Murder (1969)
• Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969)
• The Philosopher's Stone (1969) ISBN 978-0-213-17790-4
• The Return of the Lloigor (publicat primer el 1969 amb l'antologia Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos; i en una edició separada i revisada, Village Press, Londres, 1974).
• Poetry and Mysticism (1969; subsequently significantly expanded in 1970)
• L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970)
• The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (amb E. H. Visiak i J.B. Pick, 1970)
• Strindberg (1970)
• The God of the Labyrinth (als Estats Units, The Hedonists) (1970)
• The Killer (als Estats Units, Lingard) (1970)
• The Occult: A History (1971) (reeditat a España per Arcano Books en 2006, amb el títol Lo Oculto)
• The Black Room (1971)
• Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972)
• New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972)
• Strange Powers (1973)
• "Tree" by Tolkien (1973)
• Hermann Hesse (1974)
• Wilhelm Reich (1974)
• Jorge Luis Borges (1974)
• Hesse-Reich-Borges: Three Essays (1974)
• Ken Russell: A Director in Search of a Hero (1974)
• A Book of Booze (1974)
• The Schoolgirl Murder Case (1974)
• The Unexplained (1975)
• Mysterious Powers (US title They Had Strange Powers) (1975)
• The Craft of the Novel (1975)
• Enigmas and Mysteries (1975)
• The Geller Phenomenon (1975)
• The Space Vampires (1976)
• Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (als Estats Units Dark Dimensions) (amb diversos autors, 1977)
• Mysteries (1978)
• Mysteries of the Mind (with Stuart Holroyd, 1978)
• The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1979)
• "Timeslip" (short story in Aries I, editat per John Grant, 1979)
• Science Fiction as Existentialism (1980)
• Starseekers (1980)
• Frankenstein's Castle: the Right Brain-Door to Wisdom (1980)
• The Book of Time, edited by John Grant and Colin Wilson (1980)
• The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff (1980)
• The Directory of Possibilities, editat per Colin Wilson i John Grant (1981)
• Poltergeist!: A Study in Destructive Haunting (1981)
• Anti-Sartre, with an Essay on Camus (1981)
• The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1982)
• The Goblin Universe (with Ted Holiday, 1982)
• Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983)
• Encyclopedia of Modern Murder, 1962-82 (1983)
• "A Novelization of Events in the Life and Death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin," in Tales of the Uncanny (Reader's Digest Association, 1983; una edición abreviada del posteriorThe Magician from Siberia)
• The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984)
• A Criminal History of Mankind (1984), revised and updated (2005)
• Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the Twentieth Century (1984)
• The Janus Murder Case (1984)
• The Bicameral Critic (1985)
• The Essential Colin Wilson (1985)
• Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)
• Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence of Life After Death (1985)
• The Personality Surgeon (1985)
• An Encyclopedia of Scandal. Editat per Colin Wilson i Donald Seaman (1986)
• The Book of Great Mysteries. Editat per Colin Wilson i Dr. Christopher Evans (1986)
• An Essay on the 'New' Existentialism (1988)
• The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986)
• Spider World: The Tower (1987)
• Spider World: The Delta (1987)
• Marx Refuted - The Verdict of History, editat per Colin Wilson (with contributions also) i Ronald Duncan, Bath, (UK), (1987), ISBN 0-906798-71-X
• Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987)
• The Musician as 'Outsider'. (1987)
• The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (amb Damon Wilson, 1987)
• Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (amb Robin Odell, 1987)
• Autobiographical Reflections (1988)
• The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988)
• Beyond the Occult (1988)
• The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988)
• The Magician from Siberia (1988)
• The Decline and Fall of Leftism (1989)
• Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989)
• Existentially Speaking: Essays on the Philosophy of Literature (1989)
• Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990)
• Spider World: The Magician (1992)
• Mozart's Journey to Prague (1992)
• The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky (1993)
• Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1993)
• Outline of the Female Outsider (1994)
• A Plague of Murder (1995)
• From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996) (editat a España pel Círculo de Lectores el 1996 amb el títol El Mensaje Oculto De La Esfinge)
• An Extraordinary Man in the Age of Pigmies: Colin Wilson on Henry Miller (1996)
• The Atlas of Sacred Places (1997)
• Below the Iceberg: Anti-Sartre and Other Essays (reissue with essays on postmodernism, 1998)
• The Corpse Garden (1998)
• The Books in My Life (1998)
• Alien Dawn (1999)
• The Devil's Party (US title Rogue Messiahs) (2000)
• The Atlantis Blueprint (with Rand Flem-Ath, 2000)
• Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic History (2002)
• The Tomb of the Old Ones (amb John Grant, 2002)
• Spider World: Shadowlands (2002)
• Dreaming To Some Purpose (2004)
• World Famous UFOs (2005)
• Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals (2006)
• Crimes of Passion: The Thin Line Between Love and Hate (2006)
• The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men (2007)
• Manhunters:Criminal Profilers & Their Search for the World's Most Wanted Serial Killers (2007)
• Super Consciousness (2009)