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Does it matter?

Essays on man's relation to materiality

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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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125

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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.
Seven short essays.

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Dewey Decimal Class
170
Library of Congress
BJ1581.2 .W36 1970

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Pagination
xvi, 125 p.
Number of pages
125

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OL5306826M
Internet Archive
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LCCN
72089988
OCLC/WorldCat
72683
LibraryThing
137438

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OL266155W

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