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  • Alan Watts in Late-Twentieth-Century Discourse

    Commentary and Criticism from 1974 to 1994

    Edited by Peter J. Columbus ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Psychology
    This book is an anthology of commentary and criticism written within the transitional period between Alan Watts’ 1973 death and the twenty-first century intellectual horizon.Comprised of 16 chapters written and published between 1974 and 1994, with up-to-date introductions from the essayists and other contemporary thinkers, this volume opens a window onto unexplored grounds of Alan Watts’ impact ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture

    Understanding Contributions and Controversies

    Edited by Peter J. Columbus ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Psychology
    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.Offering rich examination of as yet underexplored aspects of Watts’ influence in 1960s counterculture, this volume offers unique application of Watts’ ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Alan Watts–Here and Now

    Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion

    Edited by Peter J. Columbus, Donadrian L. Rice ...
    Series series SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
    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 ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Alan Watts - In the Academy

    Essays and Lectures

    by Alan Watts ...
    Series series SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
    Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.Gold Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Philosophy categoryTo commemorate the 2015 centenary of the birth of Alan Watts (1915–1973), Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice have assembled a much-needed collection of Watts's scholarly essays ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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  • National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism

    Edited by Donald A. Crosby, Jerome A. Stone ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Religion
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