Published November 14, 2011
The Sound Barrier: a study of the ideas of Colin Wilson.
by
Sidney R. Campion
Originally written in 1963 as a sequel to The World of Colin Wilson, Sidney R. Campion’s assessment of the early work of Colin Wilson—including much of the ‘Outsider Cycle’ and the accompanying novels—failed to find a publisher at the time, despite being amended by Wilson and enhanced by quotations from his journals. Eventually abandoned and forgotten for over 40 years, Wilson scholars will see the publication of The Sound Barrier as an invaluable addition to Colin Wilson studies concentrating, as it does, on that particularly fruitful and important stage in the author’s career.
Sidney R. Campion (1891-1978), author, journalist, barrister, lecturer, schoolmaster, sculptor, was born in Coalville, Leicestershire. From 1940 until retirement in 1957, he was Head of the Press and Broadcast Division of the GPO. Publications included: Sunlight on the Foothills (1941), Towards the Mountains (1943) and The World of Colin Wilson (1962).
Colin Wilson Studies #19
ISSN: 0959-180-X ISBN 9780946650811 (Paperback)
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C.W. Festschrift
Around the Outsider, a collection of essays presented to Colin to mark his forthcoming 80th birthday, is available at Amazon now. Edited by Colin Stanley, it offers appreciations from CW scholars on their favourite CW book. Contents are:
Preface by Colin Stanley
The Fiction.
An Acceptance of Complexity: Ritual in the Dark by Nicholas Tredell
Fighting against Sleep: Necessary Doubt as a Phenomenological Thriller by Thomas F. Bertonneau
The Mind Parasites: Wilson, Husserl, Plotinus by Stephen R. L. Clark
The Philosopher’s Stone: a cosmic adventure story for the 21st Century by Simon Brighton
The No-Fiction.
The Outsider: From Existentialism to Enlightenment by Steve Taylor
Intentionality is the key (Introduction to the New Existentialism) by Colin Stanley
Poetry and Mysticism by Gary Lachman
Colin Wilson’s New Pathways in Psychology by Colin Stanley
The Missing Writer’s Manual (Craft of the Novel) by Chris Nelson
A retrospective look at Mysteries from the perspective of parapsychology by Stanley Krippner, PhD
The Haunted Man (The Strange Genius of David Lindsay) by Murray Ewing
Colin Wilson’s Access to Inner Worlds by David Power
Brockengespenst Horror (A Criminal History of Mankind) by Philip Coulthard
In my Father’s house are many mansions. John, 14.2 (Beyond the Occult) by George C. Poulos
Colin Wilson’s The Books in My Life by Antoni Diller
Colin Wilson & ‘The Joyous Overplus’ (Dreaming to Some Purpose) by Paul Newman
Super Consciousness: the literary crux by Geoff Ward
Appendix One:
The Man Who Saw the Future, Colin Wilson and T. C. Lethbridge: A Personal Appreciation by Terry Welbourn
Appendix Two:
Dawn-Young-Heaven by Laura Del Rivo
Appendix Three:
scuba-ing for colin wilson by Vaughan Robertson (aka Rapatahana)
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Colin Stanley speaking at the Around the Outsider launch at Notts Uni.
The Phenomenology of Excess 