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Title: Nature, Man and Woman
Author: Alan Watts
ISBN: 9780679732334
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Number of Pages: 224
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: From "perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West--and an author who 'had the rare gift of 'writing beautifully the unwritable'" (Los Angeles Times)--a guide that draws on Chinese Taoism to reexamine humanity's place in the natural world and the relation between body and spirit.
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 emotion, and our loneliness and reluctance to love. Here, Watts fundamentally challenges these assumptions, drawing on the precepts of Taoism to present 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.
Author: Alan Watts
ISBN: 9780679732334
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Number of Pages: 224
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: From "perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West--and an author who 'had the rare gift of 'writing beautifully the unwritable'" (Los Angeles Times)--a guide that draws on Chinese Taoism to reexamine humanity's place in the natural world and the relation between body and spirit.
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 emotion, and our loneliness and reluctance to love. Here, Watts fundamentally challenges these assumptions, drawing on the precepts of Taoism to present 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.
