Nature, Man and Woman
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
27 February 1991
Summary
In Nature, Man, and Woman, philosopher Alan Watts reexamines humanity’s place in the natural world—and the relation between body and spirit—in the light of Chinese Taoism. Western thought and culture have coalesced around a series of constructed ideas—that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled; that the mind is somehow superior to the body; that all sexuality entails a seduction—that in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emoti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679732334 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679732330 |
| Author: | Alan W. Watts |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 1991 |
| Weight: | 187g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’” – Los Angeles Times
“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’”—Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Alan W. Watts
Alan Watts was born in England in 1915 and received his early education at King’s School, Canterbury. He received a master’s degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Illinois and an honorary doctorate of divinity from the University of Vermont. He wrote his first book, The Spirit of Zen, at the age of twenty and went on to write over twenty other books including The Way of Zen, The Book, and Tao: The Watercourse Way, which though never fully completed was published after the author’s death and introduced thousands of readers to Taoist thought.
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