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The wisdom of insecurity : a message for an age of anxiety

2011

Format:	Book
Author:	Watts, Alan, 1915-1973, author.
Title:	The wisdom of insecurity : a message for an age of anxiety / Alan W. Watts ; [with an introduction by Deepak Chopra].
Edition:	Second Vintage Books edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2011. ©1979
Description:	vii, 152 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Security (Psychology) Religion -- Philosophy. Certainty -- Religious aspects. Fear.
Other Author:	Chopra, Deepak, writer of introduction.
Other Title:	Message for an age of anxiety
Notes:	"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.
ISBN:	9780307741202 0307741206 9780307741202 0307741206
Other Number:	662402941
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Control Number:	431555
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Call Number:	128 Watts

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