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Nature, man and woman / Alan W. Watts.
LIBRA Special BL51 .W373 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watts, Alan, 1915-1973.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Philosophy, Chinese.
- Sex--Religious aspects.
- Sex.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1991.
- Summary:
- Book Description: A provocative and enduring work that reexamines humanity's place in the natural world -- and the spirit's relation to the flesh -- in the light of Chinese Taoism. That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction -- a danger and a problem-are all assumptions upon which much of Western thought and culture is based. And all of them in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotion, and our loneliness and reluctance to love. Few books have challenged those assumptions as directly as this erudite and engaging work by the author of The Way of Zen. Drawing on the precepts of Taoism, Alan Watts offers an alternative vision of man and the universe -- one in which the distinctions between self and other, spirit and matter give way to a more holistic way of seeing. Nature, Man and Woman is a book of great elegance and far-reaching implication -- one of those rare texts that can change the way we think, feel, and love.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1: Man And Nature:
- 1: Urbanism and paganism
- 2: Science and nature
- 3: Art of feeling
- 4: World as ectasy
- 5: World as non-sense
- Part 2: Man And Woman:
- 6: Spirituality and sexuality
- 7: Sacred and profane love
- 8: Consummation
- Bibliographical references.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209).
- ISBN:
- 0679732330
- 9780679732334
- OCLC:
- 23262934
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