Title:
The wisdom of insecurity : a message for an age of anxiety
Author:
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Edition:
Second Vintage Books edition.
Publication Date:
2011
1979
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2011.
©1979
Physical Description:
vii, 152 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780307741202
Abstract:
Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion, Watts argues that is only by acknowledging what we do not and cannot know that we can find something truly worth knowing.--From publisher description.
General Note:
"Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, New York, in 1951, and subsequently published in paperback by Vintage Books, New York, in 1968"--Title page verso.
"Copyright ©1951 by Pantheon Books, Copyright renewed 1979 by Mary Jane Yates Watts, Introduction copyright ©2011 by Deepak Chopra"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Introduction -- Preface -- The age of anxiety -- Pain and time -- The great stream -- The wisdom of the body -- On being aware -- The marvelous moment -- The transformation of life -- Creative morality -- Religion renewed.
Language:
English
