Outsider
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"But for a hundred years or more, Outsiders have been swinging the hammer, without consciously realizing what they were doing, and slowly creating new values by implication. Forty years after Hulme's death, we can begin to see the results of the hundred years of intellectual questioning. Hulme regarded his Speculations as a preface to Pascal's Pensees, but it would perhaps be more accurate to regard them as the epilogue of a certain indispensable body of Outsider literature, beginning with Dostoevsky's Notes from Under the Floorboards and including Steppenwolf, The Secret Life, Nijinsky's Diary and Mind at the End of Its Tether."--The Outsider (1956) by Colin Wilson |
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An outsider is one who is not part of a community or organization or a newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community. It can also refer to one identified as on the periphery of social norms, or as an observer peering into group identity, i.e. having independence in character and thought.
In the arts
- Outsider music, composed or performed by musicians working outside the musical mainstream
- Outsider art, created by artists working outside the mainstream art world
Namesakes
- The Outsider (1956) by Colin Wilson
- Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968) by Peter Gay
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