Alan Watts–Here and Now -

Alan Watts–Here and Now

Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion
Buch | Hardcover
263 Seiten
2012
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-4199-3 (ISBN)
89,95 inkl. MwSt
Considers the contributions and contemporary significance of Alan Watts.
Alan Watts—Here and Now explores the intellectual legacy and continuing relevance of a prolific writer and speaker who was a major influence on American culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. A thinker attuned to the spiritual malaise affecting the Western mind, Watts (1915–1973) provided intellectual and spiritual alternatives that helped shape the Beat culture of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s. Well known for introducing Buddhist and Daoist spirituality to a wide Western audience, he also wrote on psychology, mysticism, and psychedelic experience. Many idolized Watts as a guru-mystic, yet he was also dismissed as intellectually shallow and as a mere popularizer of Asian religions (the "Norman Vincent Peale of Zen"). Both critical and appreciative, this edited volume locates Watts at the forefront of major paradigmatic shifts in Western intellectual life. Contributors explore how Watts's work resonates in present-day scholarship on psychospiritual transformation, Buddhism and psychotherapy, Daoism in the West, phenomenology and hermeneutics, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, mysticism, and ecofeminism, among other areas.

Peter J. Columbus is Administrator of the Shantigar Foundation in Rowe, Massachusetts. Donadrian L. Rice is Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. They are also the coeditors of Psychology of the Martial Arts.

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: A New Look at Alan Watts
Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice

1. Alan Watts’ Anticipation of Four Major Debates in the Psychology of Religion
Ralph W. Hood Jr.

2. Alan Watts: The Immediate Magic of God
Alan Keightley

3. Phenomenological Exegeses of Alan Watts: Transcendental and Hermeneutic Strategies
Peter J. Columbus

4. The Psychedelic Adventures of Alan Watts
Stanley Krippner

5. From the Joyous Cosmology to the Watercourse Way: An Appreciation of Alan Watts
Ralph Metzner

6. Alan Watts and the Neuroscience of Transcendence
Donadrian L. Rice

7. Listening to the Rain: Embodied Awareness in Watts
Michael C. Brannigan

8. Alan Watts on Nature, Gender, and Sexuality: A Contemporary View
Miriam L. Levering

9. Contributions and Conundrums in the Psychospiritual Transformation of Alan Watts
Alan Pope

10. Buddhist Wisdom in the West: A 50-year Perspective on the Contributions of Alan Watts
Kaisa Puhakka

11. Watercourse Way: Still Flowing with Alan Watts
Chungliang Al Huang

List of Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.6.2012
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 2
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-4384-4199-1 / 1438441991
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-4199-3 / 9781438441993
Zustand Neuware
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