Alan Watts - Here and Now

Alan Watts—Here and Now explores the intellectual legacy and continuing relevance of a prolific writer and speaker who was a major influence on American culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. A thinker attuned to the spiritual malaise affecting the Western mind, Watts (1915–1973) provided intellectual and spiritual alternatives that helped shape the Beat culture of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s. Well known for introducing Buddhist and Daoist spirituality to a wide Western audience, he also wrote on psychology, mysticism, and psychedelic experience. Many idolized Watts as a guru-mystic, yet he was also dismissed as intellectually shallow and as a mere popularizer of Asian religions (the "Norman Vincent Peale of Zen"). Both critical and appreciative, this edited volume locates Watts at the forefront of major paradigmatic shifts in Western intellectual life. Contributors explore how Watts's work resonates in present-day scholarship on psychospiritual transformation, Buddhism and psychotherapy, Daoism in the West, phenomenology and hermeneutics, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, mysticism, and ecofeminism, among other areas. 艾伦·沃茨——此时此地 探讨了一位多产的作家和演说家的知识遗产和持续相关性，他在 20 世纪下半叶对美国文化产生了重大影响。瓦茨（Watts，1915-1973 年）是一位关注影响西方思想的精神萎靡不振的思想家，他提供了知识和精神上的替代方案，帮助塑造了 1950 年代的垮掉派文化和 1960 年代的反主流文化。他以向广大西方读者介绍佛教和道教灵性而闻名，他还撰写了有关心理学、神秘主义和迷幻体验的文章。许多人将沃茨视为神秘主义者，但他也被斥为智力浅薄，仅仅是亚洲宗教的普及者（“禅宗的诺曼·文森特·皮尔”）。这本编辑后的书既具有批判性又具有欣赏性，将瓦茨置于西方知识生活重大范式转变的最前沿。撰稿人探讨了瓦茨的工作如何在当今的心理精神转变、佛教和心理治疗、西方道教、现象学和解释学、人文主义和超个人心理学、神秘主义和生态女权主义等领域的学术界产生共鸣。