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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Robert Pirsig (Autor)
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Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1984
The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life.

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

"The study of the art of motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon." -- Robert M. Pirsig

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  • Taschenbuch: 400 Seiten
  • Verlag: Bantam; Auflage: Reissue (1. März 1984)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0553277472
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553277470
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,5 x 10,7 x 2,8 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (151 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 151.386 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.

Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.

In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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"Profoundly important... full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas... It is intellectual entertainment of the highest order." -- The New York Times

"It lodges in the mind as few recent novels have... The book is inspired, original... As the mountains gentle toward the sea--with father and child locked in a ghostly grip--the narrative tact, the perfect economy of effect defy criticism... The analogies with Moby Dick are patent. Robert Pirsig invites the prodigious comparison... What more can one say?" -- The New Yorker

"It's a miracle.. sparkles like an electric dream. Freshness, originality... that seduces you into loving motorcycles, as tender in their pistons as the petals in the Buddah's dawn lotus." -- The Village Voice
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5.0 von 5 Sternen The Joy of Engagement! 12. Mai 2007
Von Donald Mitchell TOP 500 REZENSENT
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Before reviewing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, let me mention that most people will either love or hate the book. Few will be indifferent.

Those who will love the book will include those who enjoy philosophy, especially those who are well read in that subject; people who ride and maintain their own motorcycles; readers who are interested in psychology, particularly in terms of the mass hypnosis of social concepts; individuals who are curious about the line we draw between sanity and insanity; and people who want to think about how to deal with troubling personal situations, especially as a parent. As someone who has all of these interests and perspectives, the book fit my needs very well.

Those who will dislike the book are people who like lots of action in their novels, dislike the subjects described above, and who want easy reading. This book is very thick with concepts, ideas, metaphors, and layering which reward careful reading and thought. Most text books are considerably easier to read and understand. Few modern novels are any more difficult to read from an intellectual and emotional perspective.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
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5.0 von 5 Sternen What? ... WHAT? You haven't read this masterpiece? Why not? 22. Juli 2000
Von Doug Briggs
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A review of this book by me, or even a thoughtful critique,could add nothing to what has been so well-said in the numerouseloquent essays among the 200 below. Among the decisively best dozen, reviewer Barron T. Laycock, only a few reviews below, describes "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" about as well as it need be done. Another finely-drawn perspective is provided immediately below by reviewer Cicha1994, who gets to the bottom of Pirsig's magic of delivering an incredibly complex synthesis with timely spoonfuls of sugar thusly:

"Mr. Pirsig has an uncanny sense of timing, and he never allows the heavier passages to labor on too long. This is avoided by craftily interspersing his philosophical discourse amongst very down-to-earth and charming observations made during a motorcycle trip ..."

Not daring to venture into the rarified air of the erudite reviews already here, I humbly offer a more fundamental observation, one that is "down-to-earth as fertilizer," as we say.

How I came to read this book the first time -- of how many? -- I can't imagine. I have no interest in Zen, never owned a motorcycle and so needed no advice about keeping one humming. What I found I did have very strong interests in was everything Persig had to say.

"Zen and the Art..." was an immediate best-seller when it was published 26 years ago. That couldn't have inspired my interest in it, for I have instinctive misgivings about best-sellers. But I did read it and have been all the better for it. Every subsequent reading has opened a little door or niche missed before.

Call any used book store and mention of "Zen and the Art..." and you'll get immediate recognition of it, often a comment like, "Oh, yeah. That Robert Persig book....

There is a positively bone-chilling aspect about "Zen and the Art...". The millions who have read this supreme intellectual and artistic masterpiece -- many, many of whom, like me, were profoundly enriched by it -- came perilously close to being denied the experience. If memory serves, Persig's manuscript was rejected 122 times before William Morrow picked it up (probably after having also rejected it a few times). That says volumes about the dismal state of publishing back then, an industry that is in even blacker depths today. Lesen Sie weiter... ›

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1.0 von 5 Sternen "actually, Water is not perfect" 16. Februar 1998
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this book tries so blatantly to be metaphorical that it really ends up being quite shallow. The ironic thing is that if one has this opinion, dissenters simply say "you merely don't understand it". This angers me. I have spent much time studying Zen, and can find no correlations between this book and actual Zen tenents. If you disagree, please email me with your comments
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5.0 von 5 Sternen A Narrative and Philosophical Masterpiece 12. Juli 2000
Von william woolum
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I first read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as a college senior twenty-five years ago. I remember then being frightened by how this man's determination to pursue a philosophical idea to its conclusion, even if it were against the grain of established conventions of thinking, drove him insane. I was afraid deeper study and questioning might do the same to me. I know now, however, that I'm not insane. I also know that twenty-five years ago this story of a man and his son travelling by motorcycle from Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean took deep residence in my soul.

I've been a teacher now for twenty-three years, long enough to forget some of my initial influences. But, as I read this book all these years later, I realized that my philosophical view points, examples I use to illustrate ideas with my students, what I believe the purpose of an education is, and several other bits of pedagogy and ideology originated in Pirig's story.

I highly recommend this book, maybe especially if you are unread in philosophy and would like a readable, enjoyable, and provocative entree into the history and vocabulary of philosophy.

It's a deeply moving, intellectually stiumlating story. Its devotion to story-telling and philosophical inpuiry is indeed most rare.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
a great success, informative, intriguing, tense, humorous. Simply a classic piece of writing, weird but utterly believable. I enjoyed it immensely.
Vor 5 Monaten von Geoff Hunter veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen This book changed the way I see things
After reading Pirsig's masterpiece I completely changed my way of seeing things. Namely, I decided that I would change my entire life and started studying medicine while I had been... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 7 Monaten von DjGabriro veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen Excellent book
This book is a true classic and always worth reading. I really enjoyed the story of a motorcycle trip turning into a philosophical essay. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Mai 2011 von LivingScience
5.0 von 5 Sternen The Joy of Engagement!
Before reviewing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, let me mention that most people will either love or hate the book. Few will be indifferent. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Mai 2007 von Donald Mitchell
5.0 von 5 Sternen Rewarding, if invested in
Taking the reader on a journey of how one unconventional and intelligent person grapples with how to work out what's really important in life, this book isn't the most accessible... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. August 2006 von Highlander
5.0 von 5 Sternen The Joy of Engagement!
Before reviewing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, let me mention that most people will either love or hate the book. Few will be indifferent. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juli 2004 von Donald Mitchell
5.0 von 5 Sternen A SLIGHT BREEZE AT SUNRISE
Through his writting, Mr. Pirsig shows what wonderous joy is possible to have in one's life. As a long time and long distance rider I really appreciate this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 2000 von NYC reviewer
5.0 von 5 Sternen Does the quest for quality have to drive you quazy?
It did to our narrator. But what a tale he tells! It seems that most of the reviews of this book revolve around the obvious lessons. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juli 2000 von GWERT
1.0 von 5 Sternen Dull hippie philosophy
Do you enjoy the intellectual depth that greeting cards provide? How about the careful thought that bumper stickers demonstrate? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen An odyssey of the modern-day self.
Pirsig's narrator relates a picaresque intellectual narrative interweaving 3 metaphoric journeys with his main quest-- coming to terms with his own identity and the meaning of... Lesen Sie weiter...
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