legacy asia western man study de alan watts (5 résultats)

Etat : Fair. 1937. First Edition. 187 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Page are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Binding has remained firm. Moderate water staining to page edges and corners; text remains clear. Heavy staining and bubbling to rear pastedown. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. A few liquid droplet marks and mild dust stains. Slightly cocked spine.

Etat : Good. 1937. First Edition. 187 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Pages are lightly tanned with some foxing throughout. Slight crinkling to paper at gutters, however binding remains firm. Minor rust marks to top edge of front free endpaper and pastedown. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Visible yellow marks across spine and boards causing discolouration to cloth. Faint white rubbed marks to both boards. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition, bound in dull raspberry-colored cloth, spine lettered in gilt; internally clean square tight and unmarked, no cracked hinges or loosening of the text block; covers are mildlu sun-faded around the very edges and the spine, but gilt lettering still legible on the spine [see photo], very light rubs to top of spine.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. From the library of renowned Sanskrit scholar and orientalist Judith M. Tyberg (1902-80), with her signed bookplate to the front flyleaf, largely covering another bookplate. In 1951, Tyberg was invited to join the faculty of the newly founded American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. The AAAS was the first graduate university devoted to Asian culture and was considered one of the foundations of the San Francisco Renaissance. Tyberg held the professorship of Sanskrit alongside an international group of colleagues that included Alan Watts, Haridas Chaudhuri, and Dilipkumar Roy. The author's scarce second book. Although Watts (1915-73) distanced himself from this work in later years, as biographer Monica Furlong observes, "it reveals much about the way Watts's mind worked in the period immediately following The Spirit of Zen. In some ways, it is a response to the rather shallow arguments against Buddhism that his first book provoked, the sort of criticism of which Watts has been happily and unselfconsciously aware when he began to write. In his second book he felt obliged to tackle questions of whether Buddhism is 'impersonal,' whether it 'devalues' the individual, whether it lacks 'love' and social concern. Watts, however, took on a bigger task than defending Buddhism. He began to see every religion as having special gifts of its own to bring to mankind: Hinduism a very deep understanding of mysticism, Taoism a sense of oneness with the principles of life, Buddhism in all its forms, a developed method of freeing the mind from illusion." "Inevitably, Christianity, the traditional religion of most people he was writing for, had somehow to be rediscovered for his purposes . borrowing from Jung, Watts suggested that Christianity must learn to see itself much more in symbolic and mythical terms than in historical ones, so that, for example the Passion and Resurrection of Christ become the pain of the individual torn between the contradiction of the opposites, and achievement of their eventual resolution, or the birth of the Divine Child becomes the birth of intuitive love in every person. Watts also believed assimilating Asian wisdom - in particular the wisdom relating to the relativity of good and evil, and the recognition of the way mankind is torn by duality - gave a chance for escaping the alienation of duality" (Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts, p.64-5). An ink notation on the front flyleaf suggests this is a review copy. Small octavo: xviii, 187, [3] p. Original cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild ex-library markings in the form of a blank label affixed to the rear flyleaf and an accession number to the spine. The spine is moderately sun faded.

Etat : Good. University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL 1938 brown cloth boards are moderately soiled. sunned spine. previous owner inscription in pencil to ffep. binding secure. $NRP.