Alan Watts in Late-Twentieth-Century Discourse

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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