Does it Matter?

Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality

Alan Watts

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New World Library
28 October 2007

Religion: general

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This series of essays represents philosopher Alan Watts' thinking on the confounding problems of our relation to our material environment. In it, Watts argues that modern people confuse symbol with reality, as well as ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself. Thus we put ourselves into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead of the dinner. With our attention locked on numbers, concepts, and technology, we are increasingly unconscious of nature and of our total dependence on air, water, plants, animals, insects, and bacteria.

We have hallucinated the notion that the so-called ""external"" world is a cluster of ""objects"" separate from ourselves, that we ""encounter"" it, that we come into it instead of out of it. Consequently, our species is fouling its own nest and is in imminent danger of self-obliteration. In this classic work, a philosopher best known for his writings and teachings about mysticism and Eastern philosophy gets down to the nitty-gritty problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, housing, and the rest of the world around us.

By: Alan Watts
Imprint: New World Library
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9781577315858
ISBN 10: 1577315855
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 28 October 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Does it Matter?

Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality

Alan Watts

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