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Vintage Books, Date: 1991. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 224 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. 1991. Vintage Books ISBN 0679732330 9780679732334 [GB]

ISBN10: 0679732330, ISBN13: 9780679732334, [publisher: Vintage, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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. That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction - a danger and a problem - are all assumptions upon which much of Western thought and culture is based. And all of them in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotions, and our loneliness and reluctance to love. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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ISBN10: 0679732330, ISBN13: 9780679732334, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1991-02-27, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 0679732330, ISBN13: 9780679732334, [publisher: Random House] Softcover pp. 224
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ISBN10: 0679732330, ISBN13: 9780679732334, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 204 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208. . 1991. Reissue. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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