Full name: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Author: Robert M. Pirsig Year: 1974 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Classic, Travel, Psychology, Religion Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060589462 0060589469

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. This 25th Anniversary Quill Edition features a new introduction by the author; important typographical changes; and a Reader's Guide that includes discussion topics, an interview with the author, and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life. Similar books: Lila by Robert M. Pirsig The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky I and Thou by Martin Buber Ethics by Baruch Spinoza The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche Pragmatism by William James The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Illusions by Richard Bach The Book by Alan Watts Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley