Alan Watts in Late-Twentieth-Century Discourse

ISBN-13: 9781032471358 / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Opis

This book is an anthology of commentary and criticism written within the transitional period between Alan Watts’ 1973 death and the twenty-first century intellectual horizon.

Spis treści

Introduction: Alan Watts – Then and There  Part 1: Commentary  1. The Vintage Alan Watts  2. The Complete Alan Watts  3. Alan Watts’ Metaphysical Language: Positivity in Negative Concepts  4. The Theory of Non-duality in the Philosophy of Alan Watts  5. Alan Watts and the Therapeutic Process  6. Daemon est deus Inversus: The Androgynous Dialectics of Alan Watts  7.“Beyond Separation”  8. Alan Watts’s Word on Myths of Polarity: Power to Women, Nature, and the Left Hand of God  Part 2: Criticism  9. The Meeting of the Twain: Alan Watts and The Supreme Identity  10. The Mystical Philosophy of Alan Watts  11. An Evaluation of Watts  12. Alan Watts Was Sure One Strange Kinda Chinaman!  13. The Wayward Mysticism of Alan Watts  14. A Response to Nordstrom and Pilgrim’s Critique of Alan Watts’ Mysticism  15. Zen, Mysticism, and Counter-culture: The Pilgrimage of Alan Watts  16. The Influence of Oriental Mysticism on American Thought  17. Editor’s Conclusion: Alan Watts – Yesterday and Today

O autorze

Peter J. Columbus is administrator of Shantigar Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of Valley Zendo – a Soto Zen Buddhist Temple in the lineage of Kodo Sawaki and Kosho Uchiyama. He holds a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA.