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Review“Reading Alan Watts challenges us to explore new avenues of thinking, inspires us to lead more fulfilling lives. His legacy lives on in The Wisdom of Insecurity, a work that energetically displays Watts’s piercing intellect, razor-sharp wit, and winning grace. For the clarity and wisdom with which it engages timeless concerns crucial to us all, it is unmatched. An important book.”—Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’”—Los Angeles Times“The wisdom of insecurity is not a way of evasion, but of carrying on wherever we happen to be stationed—carrying on, however, without imagining that the burden of the world, or even of the next moment, is ours. It is a philosophy not of nihilism but of the reality of the present—always remembering that to be of the present is to be, and candidly know ourselves to be, on the crest of a breaking wave.”—Philip Wheelwright, Arts and Letters“This book proposes a complete reversal of all ordinary thinking about the present state of man. The critical condition of the world compels us to face this pr

Who reads The Wisdom of Insecurity : a Message for an Age of Anxiety?

Author

Alan W Watts

Publisher

Rider & Co

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307741202

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Self Help

Rating

4.26 / 5 (659 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14