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Alan Watts--in the academy : essays and lectures / edited and with an introduction by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice.
Author
Watts, Alan, 1915-1973
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Uniform title
Essays.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Description
xii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
B945 .W321 2017
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Philosophy
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Editor
Columbus, Peter J.
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Rice, Donadrian L.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Essays
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Series
SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
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Summary note
To commemorate the 2015 centenary of the birth of Alan Watts (1915?1973), Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice have assembled a much-needed collection of Watts?s scholarly essays and lectures. Compiled from professional journals, monographs, scholarly books, conferences, and symposia proceedings, the volume sheds valuable light on the developmental arc of Watts?s thinking about language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy. This definitive collection challenges Watts?s reputation as a?popularizer? or?philosophical entertainer,? revealing his concerns to be much more expansive and transdisciplinary than is suggested by the parochial?Zen Buddhist? label commonly affixed to his writings. The editors? authoritative introduction elucidates contemporary perspectives on Watts?s life and work, and supports a bold rethinking of his contributions to psychology, philosophy, and religion.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part one. Language and mysticism
On the meaning and relation of absolute and relative (1950)
The negative way (1951)
The language of metaphysical experience: the sense of non-sense (1953)
On philosophical synthesis (1953)
Philosophy beyond words (1975)
Part two. Buddhism and Zen
The problem of faith and works in Buddhism (1941)
Zen (1948)
The way of liberation in Zen Buddhism (1955)
Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen (1958)
Zen and politics (1962)
Prefatory essay to Suzuki's Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism (1963)
Part three. Christianity
Theologia Mystica: being the Treatise of Saint Dionysius pseudo-areopagite on mystical theology Together with the first and fifth epistles (1944)
The Case for God (1946)
The meaning of priesthood (1946)
The Christian doctrine of marriage (1946)
Part four. Comparative religion
Worship in sacrament and silence (1964/1971)
Western mythology: its dissolution and transformation (1970)
The future of religion (1970)
Unity in contemplation (1974)
Part five. Psychedelics
The individual as man/world (1963)
A psychedelic experience: fact or fantasy? (1964)
Psychedelics and religious experience (1968)
Ordinary mind is the way (1971)
Part six. Psychology and psychotherapy
Asian psychology and modern psychiatry (1953)
Convention, conflict, and liberation: further observations on Asian psychology and modern psychiatry (1956)
Eternity as the unrepressed body (1959)
Oriental and occidental approaches to the nature of man (1962)
The woman in man (1963)
An interview with Alan Watts (1969) / Philip D. Ungerer
Psychotherapy and Eastern Religion: metaphysical bases of psychiatry (1974).
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ISBN
9781438465555 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1438465556 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9781438465548 ((paperback))
1438465548 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016031500
OCLC
973199412
Other standard number
40027281028
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