By Alan Watts,Peter J. Columbus,Donadrian L. Rice
To commemorate the 2015 centenary of the delivery of Alan Watts (1915–1973), Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice have assembled a much-needed selection of Watts’s scholarly essays and lectures. Compiled from specialist journals, monographs, scholarly books, meetings, and symposia court cases, the amount sheds worthy gentle at the developmental arc of Watts’s pondering language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative faith, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy. This definitive assortment demanding situations Watts’s attractiveness as a “popularizer” or “philosophical entertainer,” revealing his matters to be even more expansive and transdisciplinary than is advised by way of the parochial “Zen Buddhist” label mostly affixed to his writings. The editors’ authoritative advent elucidates modern views on Watts’s lifestyles and paintings, and helps a daring rethinking of his contributions to psychology, philosophy, and religion.
Peter J. Columbus is Administrator of the Shantigar origin in Rowe, Massachusetts.
Donadrian L. Rice is Professor of Psychology on the collage of West Georgia. jointly they're the coeditors of Alan Watts—Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion, additionally released through SUNY Press.
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