Word: pirsig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real University is not a material object. It is not a group of buildings that can be defended by the police. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
...MOST delightful impressions Harvard's pre-freshmen get from their admissions booklets is that they are about to join Pirsig's "real" university--that they are about to start to enrich the collective heritage of reason. It seems that, when they arrive in September, they will be able to take part in the free search for whatever truth may be found at Harvard...
With any such action, the administration invokes the myth of "the Harvard community." This is the myth that all people connected with the University, bound as they are by a common commitment to Pirsig's "real University," share a common interest which is best served by the actions of a benevolent vanguard group within the community--the Faculty/administration. Hence in the core debate the faculty proponents tried to blunt student opposition by continual references to the "community of educated men," for which the criteria of membership, of course, could best be defined only by the Faculty. In the Loeb coup...
...novels, however, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," by Robert Pirsig, both published two years ago, appear to have stood the test of time...
Such pleasures are romantic, visceral, even spiritual; they need not be labeled existential. By so doing, the author forces a comparison with Robert M. Pirsig's bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a volume far richer, more vital and, ultimately, more interesting. Florman's book is weakened by its argumentative tone. Still, it is clear, erudite and occasionally eloquent, valuable reading for engineers given to self-scrutiny and a stimulating one for the layman interested in the ancient schism between machines and men's souls...