Radical Existentialism – The Outsider
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https://doi.org/10.65828/3hxwkc24Abstract
A train of thought prompted by the key conference question is followed down a rabbit hole, finding Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider and a New Existentialism, and eventually emerging as a potential book outline on the state of existentialism in the current European context.
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