One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, /5(K). Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance interweaves two parallel plots: the first is the chronicling of a transcontinental motorcycle journey taken by the narrator and his eleven-year-old son, Chris. The second plot details the life and thought of a man named Phaedrus, a solitary intellectual obsessed with a philosophical concept called Quality. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence. In his intimate detailing of a personal and philosophical odyssey, Robert M. Pirsig has written a touching, painful, and ultimately transcendent book of www.doorway.ru by:
Gallery: Photos Illustrate Pirsig's "Zen Art Motorcycle Maintenance" 1 2: Time For a Rest At The Camp Buell State Historical Site. Professor Robert DeWeese, and Chris, July ROBERT PIRSIG On Scientific Method* Born in Minneapolis, the writer Robert Pirsig is best known for his autobiographical Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (). In this book, he uses a cross-country motorcycle trip as a framework for exploring issues ranging from the proper way to care for tools to the. ~from Chapter 3 of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig. Photo courtesy of Michael Sexson: Pirsig's own photo of John Sutherland and Chris with Pirsig's Honda CB77 Superhawk in the foreground. From the original trip described in the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Bantam New Age Book, Paperback. Acceptable. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is a book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in It is a work of fictionalized autobiography, and is the first of Pirsig's texts in which he explores his "Metaphysics of Quality". Robert M. Pirsig's Zen the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father his young son.
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