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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [50th Anniversary Edition]: An Inquiry Into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

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A motorcycle journey shaped by questions of value

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A motorcycle journey shaped by questions of value

Set against a summer motorcycle trip through the American West, Robert M. Pirsig’s narrative brings a father-and-son journey into conversation with philosophical questions about human experience, values, and how to live. The trip provides a concrete frame for an inquiry that ranges beyond travel, connecting ordinary endeavor with larger questions of meaning. This 50th-anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Matthew B. Crawford. Its combination of road narrative and explicit philosophical inquiry gives the book a form that bridges lived experience and abstract reflection.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in philosophy and questions of values or meaning
  • Readers who enjoy travel narratives set in the American West
  • Readers looking for a narrative centered on a father-and-son journey

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Values and meaningHuman experience and endeavorFather-and-son relationshipsTravel and reflection

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Book overview

50th anniversary edition- With a new foreword by Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft

The bestselling masterpiece about one man's search for meaning on a motorcycle trip through the American West-- an enduring examination of how we live and how to live better

One of the most important and influential books of the past half century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is Robert M. Pirsig's classic exploration of human experience and endeavor. Pirsig's narrative of a father and son on a summer motorcycle trip 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.

"Profoundly important. . . . Full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas." --New York Times

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