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Nature, Man and Woman
Watts, Alan W. Publisher: Vintage Books
Year Published: 1970 First Published: 1958
Pages: 209pp
Resource Type: Book
Watts aays that hositility to nature is characteristic of our culture, and is the root of our personal anxiety and loneliness, our fear of feeling, and our reluctance to love. Watts discusses the origians of this 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 humans are fully included and feel at home.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I MAN AND NATURE
1. Urbanism and Paganism
2. Science and Nature
3. The Art of Feeling
4. The World as Ecstasy
5. The World as Non-Sense
II MAN AND WOMAN
6. Spirituality and Sexuality
7. Sacred and Profane Love
8. Consummation
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