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Nature, Man and Woman (1958)

av Alan W. Watts

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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 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.… (mer)
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Maybe the most dense of Watts' books. Beautiful ideas. Need to reread. ( )
  gwak | Mar 30, 2013 |
From the back-cover blurb:

"Mr. Watts discusses the origins of [human] alienation from nature in Christianity and Western thought, contrasted with the Chinese philosophy of the Tao and its vision of nature as an organic whole in which man is fully included and feels at home."

According to "Eastern Philosophy" or "Mysticism," the root of the alienation is not Christianity or Western thought, but instead the conscious, or "rational," mind. And it doesn't reject mind as being "unnatural".

That's why China and all the other Eastern countries in which Buddhism, and Taoism, etc., are practiced are utopias, while the West is a broken down ghetto suffused with anxiety over losing one's material goods.
  JNagarya | Apr 19, 2008 |
The human animal, can justly be described as a tangle of non-sense, and that certainly seems so whilst observing anyone. Alan W. Watts takes his vast knowledge of world theologies, and an intensely introspective philosophy that reveals Man's alienation from nature, Woman, and himself. ( )
  alexgalindo | Nov 22, 2007 |
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Book was dedicated to Jean Burden as Alan tells us on page 297 of his biography. In the footnote of " In My Own. Way,"he refers to the " dedicatory poem." This poem is written for Jean Burden, an important poetic voice from that era.
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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 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.

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