The geography of peak experience: Colin Wilson's message for American geographers

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English

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The California Geographer 29: 43-52

Notes

Colin Wilson is a self-taught British author whose works range widely across the humanities. Perhaps best known for his inaugural book The Outsider (1956), his reputation is based on the affirmation of human creativity. Wilson's first seven books, the "Outsider Cycle," illustrate his basic beliefs: "that human beings are free agents, that meaningful values can be found at the core of life itself, and the belief in human will as an evolutionary force with unlimited potential for development." His effort is to create a new philosophy to replace the failure of a negative and pessimistic old existentialism. What guidance can this remarkable author provide to geographers who are struggling with the issues of contemporary humanistic geography? Although I do not pretend to be a philosopher, or even a particularly knowledgeable student of geographical thought, I have struggled to understand the field's present philosophical dilemma. Colin Wilson's works have helped me understand some of the problems facing humanistic geographers, and perhaps a brief introduction to his ideas would prove useful to others.

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