Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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Harper Collins, Sep 30, 2008 - Psychology - 448 pages

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"

One of the most important and influential books of 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 meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.

 

Contents

Section 1
vii
Section 2
xi
Section 3
11
Section 4
97
Section 5
119
Section 6
137
Section 7
187
Section 8
202
Section 13
274
Section 14
289
Section 15
300
Section 16
329
Section 17
331
Section 18
353
Section 19
399
Section 20
413

Section 9
212
Section 10
226
Section 11
241
Section 12
259
Section 21
419
Section 22
442
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About the author (2008)

Robert M. Pirsig was born in 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied chemistry and philosophy (B.A., 1950) and journalism (M.A., 1958) at the University of Minnesota, pursued graduate work in philosophy at the University of Chicago, and attended Benares Hindu University in India, where he studied Oriental philosophy. He is also the author of a sequel to this book, Lila.

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