Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (An Inquiry Into Values)
 

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

by Robert M. Pirsig

Arguably one of the most profoundly important essays ever written on the nature and significance of "quality" and definitely a necessary anodyne to the consequences of a modern world pathologically obsessed with quantity. Although set as a story of a cross-country trip on a motorcycle by a father and son, it is more nearly a journey through 2,000 years of Western philosophy. For some... (read more)

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