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| | Robert M. Pirsig |
 | | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance sets out Pirsig's interpretation and definition of "Quality" and "the Good." It is mostly a first person narrative of a motorcycle trip across North America, undertaken with some friends and his son Chris. |
 | | Pirsig's publisher's recommendation to his Board ended with "This book is brilliant beyond belief, it is probably a work of genius, and will, I'll wager, attain classic stature." In his book review, George Steiner compared Pirsig's writing to Dostoevsky, Broch, Proust and Bergson, stating that "the assertion itself is valid... |
 | | Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), in which he elaborates and focuses a value-based metaphysics, called Metaphysics of Quality, to replace the subject-object view of reality. |
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