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Title: A Book Adrift
Review: Written as a response to criticism about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig attempts, in 400+ pages, to define the main idea of Zen, the Metaphysics of Quality. Pirsig does not achieve this definition. The book is part psychological novel and part philosophical lecture. The transitions are unnerving. Pirsig does bring up important points about how we see only the facts we want to see and disregard those facts that do not fit into our world view. Also presented are well thought out arguments about how academic disciplines limit thinking through the creation of rules that discourage inquiry outside of defined boundaries. Quote: "Phaedrus saw with disbelief at first and then with growing anger that the whole field of anthropology was rigged and stacked in such a way that everything he had to say about Indians would be unacceptable."
