Alan Watts--in the academy : essays and lectures / edited and with an introduction by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice.

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Watts, Alan, 1915-1973 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
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xii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology [More in this series]
    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).
    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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