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An edition of Does It Matter? (1970)

Does it matter?

essays on man's relation to materiality

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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.

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New World Library
Language
English
Pages
129

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Subjects

Conduct of life, Addresses, essays, lectures, Philosophy, Materialism, Society, Civilization

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Alan Watts

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London

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Philosophy, Materialism, Society, Civilization

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Table of Contents

Wealth versus money
Murder in the kitchen
Clothes-on and off
The spirit of violence and the matter of peace
Psychedelics and religious experience
The basic myth
The great mandala
On selecting vibrations
Planting seeds and gathering fruit
Art with a capital A
The Buddhism of Aldous Huxley
D.T. Suzuki: the "mind-less" scholar.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1970.

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Dewey Decimal Class
170
Library of Congress
BJ1581.2 .W36 2007, BJ1581.2.W36 2007

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Pagination
xiv, 129 p. ;
Number of pages
129

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OL18459021M
ISBN 13
9781577315858
LCCN
2007028537
OCLC/WorldCat
156874694
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137438
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