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Author:   Alan Watts ,  Peter J. Columbus ,  Peter J. Columbus ,  Donadrian L. Rice
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.644kg
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9781438465555

ISBN 10:   1438465556
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   01 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Editors' Preface Introduction: Alan Watts and the Academic Enterprise Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice Part I: Language and Mysticism 1. On the Meaning and Relation of Absolute and Relative (1950) 2. The Negative Way (1951) 3. The Language of Metaphysical Experience: The Sense of Non-Sense (1953) 4. On Philosophical Synthesis (1953) 5. Philosophy beyond Words (1975) Part II: Buddhism and Zen 6. The Problem of Faith and Works in Buddhism (1941). 7. Zen (1948) 8. The Way of Liberation in Zen Buddhism (1955) 9. Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen (1958) 10. Zen and Politics (1962) 11. Prefatory Essay to Suzuki's Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism (1963) Part III: Christianity 12. Theologia Mystica (1944) 13. The Case for God (1946) 14. The Meaning of Priesthood (1946) 15. The Christian Doctrine of Marriage (1946) Part IV: Comparative Religion 16. Worship in Sacrament and Silence (1964/1971) 17. Western Mythology: Its Dissolution and Transformation (1970) 18. The Future of Religion (1970) 19. Unity in Contemplation (1974) Part V: Psychedelics 20. The Individual as Man/World (1963) 21. A Psychedelic Experience: Fact or Fantasy? (1964) 22. Psychedelics and Religious Experience (1968) 23. Ordinary Mind is the Way (1971) Part VI: Psychology and Psychotherapy 24. Asian Psychology and Modern Psychiatry (1953) 25. Convention, Conflict, and Liberation: Further Observations on Asian Psychology and Modern Psychiatry (1956) 26. Eternity as the Unrepressed Body (1959) 27. Oriental and Occidental Approaches to the Nature of Man (1962) 28. The Woman in Man (1963) 29. An Interview with Alan Watts (with Philip D. Ungerer) (1969) 30. Psychotherapy and Eastern Religion: Metaphysical Bases of Psychiatry (1974) Appendix A List of Contributors Index

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This excellent volume is important in establishing Watts as perhaps the most important Western thinker and writer on Eastern religions and philosophy, as well as comparative religions, of the twentieth century. - John W. Traphagan, author of Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics

"""This excellent volume is important in establishing Watts as perhaps the most important Western thinker and writer on Eastern religions and philosophy, as well as comparative religions, of the twentieth century."" - John W. Traphagan, author of Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics"

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Peter J. Columbus is Administrator of the Shantigar Foundation in Rowe, Massachusetts. Donadrian L. Rice is Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. Together they are the coeditors of Alan Watts-Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion, also published by SUNY Press.

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