Author

Publication

2007 - New World Library, Novato, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

32,250 words, Guess

Page Count

129 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781577315858
  • ISBN-101577315855
  • LibraryThing137438
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007028537
  • OCLC Control Number156874694
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781577315858
  • Open LibraryOL18459021M

Classifications

  • DDC170
  • LCCBJ1581.2 .W36 2007
  • LCCBJ1581.2.W36 2007

Description

This is a series of essays representing philosopher Alan Watts's most recent thinking on the astonishing problems of man's relations to his material environment. The basic theme is that civilized man confuses symbol with reality, his ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself, and thus puts himself into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead of the dinner. Here, a philosopher whose works have been mainly concerned with mysticism and Oriental philosophy gets down to the "nitty-gritty" problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, and housing.

Subjects

Places

People

Alan Watts

Times

SocietyPhilosophyMaterialismCivilization

Other Editions

  • Does it matter?: essays on man's relation to materialityNew World Library2007-01-01
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