A collection of Alan Watts's more scholarly essays and lectures, edited by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice, published by the State University of New York Press in 2017 with a paperback edition in 2018. The publisher's own description states it directly: the volume was assembled to challenge Watts's reputation as a "popularizer" or "philosophical entertainer," arguing his real engagement with psychology, philosophy and religious studies was more expansive and more disciplined than the label commonly attached to his popular books suggests.
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Tier one: a collection of Alan Watts's more scholarly essays and lectures, edited and published by the State University of New York Press, assembled specifically to challenge Watts's reputation as a mere popularizer by the publisher's own stated purpose. Its limit is the ordinary one for an edited retrospective collection: it makes the case for Watts's more disciplined engagement rather than adjudicating the dispute independently. NotesA university-press edited collection, reliable as evidence that a serious scholarly reassessment of Watts exists and of what that reassessment argues in its own words. It is an advocacy volume for that reassessment rather than a neutral survey, so it is cited here as the reassessment camp's own strongest statement, not as a settled verdict.
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AuthorAlan Watts, edited by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice
PublisherState University of New York Press
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://sunypress.edu/Books/A/Alan-Watts-In-the-Academy
Source TypeEdited collection
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