Nature, Man and Woman

Name: Nature, Man and Woman
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ISBN: 9780679732334

ISBN-10: 0679732330

ISBN-13: 9780679732334

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Authors: Alan Watts, Alan W. Watts

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/27/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.99" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594

Alan Watts, a countercultural icon and author of more than twenty books, was also a spiritual philosopher, scholar of Buddhism, Anglican minister, and chaplain at Northwestern University. He died in 1973.