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Robert Pirsig: Robert M. Pirsig in Chester, England, 2005

Portrait: Robert M. Pirsig in Chester, England, 2005. Ian Glendinning, CC BY 2.5, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.

Philosopher1928–2017

Robert Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig was an American writer whose Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was turned down by more than a hundred publishers and went on to sell millions of copies. Told as a motorcycle trip across America with his son, it is really a search for Quality, which he argued comes before the split between subject and object, and between the classical and romantic ways of seeing the world.

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