The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Contributions and Controversies
Redaktion: Columbus, Peter J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Whilst accounting for the present-day popularity and relevance of Alan Watts' contributions to psychology, religion, arts and humanities, this interdisciplinary collection grapples with the ongoing criticisms which surround Watts' life and work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000384994
• Artikelnr.: 61384989

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Columbus is administrator of Shantigar Foundation in Rowe, MA, USA, and formerly served on psychology faculties at Assumption College and Greenfield Community College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction
Alan Watts in the Twenty-first Century
Peter J. Columbus
Part 1: Humanistic Psychology
Chapter One
Jung Watts: Notes on C. G. Jung's Formative Influence on Alan Watts
Ellen F. Franklin & Peter J. Columbus
Chapter Two
Alan Watts and the Re-visioning of Psychotherapy
Colin James Sanders
Chapter Three
Psychotherapy East and West: A Retrospective Review
Peter J. Columbus
Chapter Four
Alan Watts and Neurophenomenology
Susan Gordon
Chapter Five
Alan Watts and the Infinite Game: Playing Everything
Nathan L. Hulsey
Part 2: Comparative Religion and Philosophy
Chapter Six
Alan Watts, Psychedelic Buddhism, and Religious Play in Postwar America
Morgan Shipley
Chapter Seven
Alan Watts and the Occultism of Aquarian Religion: Square Gnosis, Beat Eros
Christopher W. Chase
Chapter Eight
Alan Watts and Secular Competence in Religious Praxis
Gerald Ostdiek
Chapter Nine
The Holistic Negation of Alan Watts: Reclaiming Value in the Void
Adrian Moore
Chapter Ten
Alan Watts' "Dramatic Model" and the Pursuit of Peace
Juliet Bennet
Part 3: Arts & Humanities
Chapter Eleven
Reminiscences of Alan Watts' Last Summer - "You Can Tell a Yogi by His
Laugh"
Kenneth S. Cohen
Chapter Twelve
Literary Nonsense as Enactment of Alan Watts' Philosophy - "Not just
blathering balderdash"
Michael Heyman
Chapter Thirteen
Alan Watts, Ali Akbar Khan, and Hindustani Music in the Psychedelic Sixties
Samuel B. Cushman
Chapter Fourteen
Alan Watts and his Queer Readers: Not So Strange Bedfellows
Philip Longo
Editor's Conclusion
Alan Watts: A Revised Bibliographic Resource
Peter J. Columbus