1st Edition
Alan Watts in Late-Twentieth-Century Discourse Commentary and Criticism from 1974 to 1994
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Alan Watts – Then and There
Peter J. Columbus
PART 1
Commentary
1 The Vintage Alan Watts
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
The Vintage Alan Watts
Albert W. Sadler
2 The Complete Alan Watts
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
The Complete Alan Watts
Albert W. Sadler
3 Alan Watts’ Metaphysical Language: Positivity in Negative Concepts
Prefatory Note
Michael C. Brannigan
Alan Watts’ Metaphysical Language: Positivity in Negative Concepts
Michael C. Brannigan
4 The Theory of Non-Duality in the Philosophy of Alan W. Watts
Prefatory Note
Michael C. Brannigan
The Theory of Non-Duality in the Philosophy of Alan W. Watts
Michael C. Brannigan
5 Alan Watts and the Therapeutic Process
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
Alan Watts and the Therapeutic Process
Dennis T. Sibley
6 Daemon est Deus Inversus: The Androgynous Dialectics of Alan Watts
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
Daemon est Deus Inversus: The Androgynous Dialectics of Alan Watts
Alfred L. Recoulley
7 "Beyond Separation"
Prefatory Note
Juliet Bennett
"Beyond Separation"
John H. Morgan
8 Alan Watts’ Word on Myths of Polarity: Power to Women, Nature, and the Left Hand of God
Prefatory Note
Dirk Dunbar
Alan Watts’ Word on Myths of Polarity: Power to Women, Nature, and the Left Hand of God
Dirk Dunbar
PART 2
Criticism
9 The Meeting of the Twain: Alan Watts and The Supreme Identity
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
The Meeting of the Twain: Alan Watts and The Supreme Identity
O’hyun Park
10 The Mystical Philosophy of Alan Watts
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
The Mystical Philosophy of Alan Watts
Herman F. Suligoj
11 An Evaluation of Watts
Prefatory Note
David K. Clark
An Evaluation of Watts
David K. Clark
12 Alan Watts Was Sure One Strange Kinda Chinaman!
Prefatory Note
Benjamin R. Tong
Alan Watts Was Sure One Strange Kinda Chinaman!
Benjamin R. Tong
13 The Wayward Mysticism of Alan Watts
Prefatory Note
Alexander H. Catlin
The Wayward Mysticism of Alan Watts
Louis Nordstrom and Richard Pilgrim
14 A Response to Nordstrom and Pilgrim’s Critique of Alan Watts’ Mysticism
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
A Response to Nordstrom and Pilgrim’s Critique of Alan Watts’ Mysticism
Peter J. Columbus
15 Zen, Mysticism, and Counterculture: The Pilgrimage of Alan Watts
Prefatory Note
Peter J. Columbus
Zen, Mysticism, and Counterculture: The Pilgrimage of Alan Watts
Carl T. Jackson
16 The Influence of Oriental Mysticism on American Thought
Prefatory Note
Morgan Shipley
The Influence of Oriental Mysticism on American Thought
Reed M. Baird
Editor’s Conclusion: Alan Watts – Yesterday and Today
Peter J. Columbus
Biography
Peter J. Columbus is administrator of Shantigar Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of Valley Zendo – a Soto Zen Buddhist Temple in the lineage of Kodo Sawaki and Kosho Uchiyama. He holds a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA.
