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The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture: Understanding Contributions and Controversies

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Columbus, Peter J.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction: Alan Watts in the Twenty-first Century -- Ubiquity and Salience -- Problematics -- New Perspectives -- Part I: Humanistic Psychology -- Part II: Comparative Religion and Philosophy -- Part III: Arts and Humanities -- Dead Reckoning -- References -- Part I: Humanistic Psychology -- Chapter 1: Jung Watts: Notes on C. G. Jung's Formative Influence on Alan Watts -- "Difficulties Encountered by a European in Trying to Understand the East" -- "Modern Psychology Offers a Possibility of Understanding" -- The Shadow Side of Alan Watts -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 2: Alan Watts and the Re-Visioning of Psychotherapy -- Articulating the Ineffable -- The Bateson Communication Project -- Rollo May, Erich Fromm, and Sociocultural Critique -- Social Construction and Eastern Philosophical Influences -- Simplicity and a Not-Knowing Perspective -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 3: Psychotherapy East and West: A Retrospective Review -- Part I: 1961-1970 -- Criticism and Commentary -- Part II: Subsequent Analyses -- Academic and Literary Reviews: 1970s - 1980s -- Orientalism and Postmodernism -- Conclusion: Psychotherapy East and West in the 21 st Century -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 4: Alan Watts and Neurophenomenology -- Alan Watts and Humanistic Psychology -- Francisco Varela and Neurophenomenology -- Watts, Varela, and Radical Empiricism -- Embodied Cognition -- The Specious Present -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 5: Alan Watts and the Infinite Game: Playing Everything -- Watts as a Game: A Critique of Everything -- Unfortunate Marriages in the Gameful World -- Simulation, Games and the Turn of a Friendly Card.

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The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture: Understanding Contributions and Controversies

In: Routledge Research in Psychology

Columbus, Peter J.

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' thinking to contemporary issues and critically engages with controversies surrounding the commodification of Watts' ideas, his alleged misreading of Biblical texts, and his apparent distortion of Asian religions and spirituality. Featuring a broad range of international contributors and bringing Watts' ideas squarely into the contemporary context, the text provides a comprehensive, yet nuanced exploration of Watts' thinking on psychotherapy, Buddhism, language, music, and sexuality. This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of psychotherapy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of psychology more broadly. Those interested in Jungian psychotherapy, spirituality, and the self and social identity will also enjoy this volume

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Jung Watts : notes on C.G. Jung's formative influence on Alan Watts / Ellen F. Franklin & Peter J. Columbus -- Alan Watts and the re-visioning of psychotherapy / Colin James Sanders -- Psychotherapy East and West : a retrospective review / Peter J. Columbus -- Alan Watts and neurophenomenology / Susan Gordon -- Alan Watts and the infinite game : playing everything / Nathan L. Hulsey -- Alan Watts, psychedelic Buddhism, and religious play in postwar America / Morgan Shipley -- Alan Watts and the occultism of aquarian religion : square gnosis, beat eros / Christopher W. Chase -- Alan Watts and secular competence in religious praxis / Gerald Ostdiek -- The holistic negation of Alan Watts : reclaiming value in the void / Adrian Moore -- Alan Watts' "dramatic model" and the pursuit of peace / Juliet Bennet -- Reminiscences of Alan Watts' last summer : "You can tell a Yogi by his laugh" / Kenneth S. Cohen -- Literary nonsense as enactment of Alan Watts' philosophy : "not just blathering balderdash" / Michael Heyman -- Alan Watts, Ali Akbar Khan, and Hindustani music in the psychedelic sixties / Samuel B. Cushman -- Alan Watts and his queer readers : not so strange bedfellows / Philip Longo -- Alan Watts : a revised bibliographic resource / Peter J. Columbus.

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