Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
About this book
"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.
Subjects
- 18.06 anglo-american literature
- 917.3/04/920924 b
- autobiography
- biography
- christmas decorations
- conduct of life
- ct275.p648 a3 1974
- description and travel
- essentialism (philosophy)
- existentialism
- fathers and sons
- fathers and sons--united states
- general
- handicraft
- journeys
- maintenance and repair
- motorcycles
- motorcycles, maintenance and repair
- nonfiction
- open library staff picks
- philosophy
- philosophy and civilization
- pirsig, robert m
- pirsig, robert m.
- pirsing, robert m.
- popular culture
- psychology
- self
- social values
- travel
- united states, description and travel
- values
- zen buddhism
- zen buddhism and science