Robert M. Pirsig
Paperback | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 3.78 | 5934 Users | 340 Reviews
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| Title | : | Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus #2) |
| Author | : | Robert M. Pirsig |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1992 by Bantam (first published 1991) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Fiction |
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In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.Specify Books Supposing Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus #2)
| Original Title: | Lila: An Inquiry into Morals |
| ISBN: | 0553299611 (ISBN13: 9780553299618) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Phaedrus #2 |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1992) |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 5934 Users | 340 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus #2)
While I admire anyone who attempts to create an entirely new metaphysics, the narcicism and sexism of this book was unbearable.Lila is Zens sequel.* In Zen, a heavy philosophical work, Pirsig was frustrated with a Western philosophical paradigm that didnt match up with the way that Pirsig saw reality. In Lila, Pirsig relays that his time in a mental institution was due to his struggle to see the world in his particular way. His insanity was philosophical deviance, not social. He, Phaedrus, was the sophist trying to see reality straight up, within a Western perspective that either engaged in mystery (Plato) or emphasized
The novel espouses an ambitious goal to map out a Metaphysics of Quality (MOQ). While the reasons Pirsig gives for developing a MOQ leave readers wondering at the novels purpose there is a more compelling story at the heart of the book: a reemergence of self-imposed isolation that can only be addressed by revisiting Quality.Lila progresses as follows: Robert Pirsig is divided between an intellect which isolates him from others and his desire for authentic connection. He sets off on a journey
The basic question is "Does Lila (the book) have quality?"Overall, the narrative of Phaedrus and Lila is far less engaging than the one between Phaedrus and his son in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAMM). I did enjoy some of the passages on sailing and the scene where Phaedrus is confronted by a critic of ZAMM but the book lacked a cohesive framework. The scene with Robert Redford was disappointing and the final conclusion in Manhattan is anti-climatic and bland.I found that
In societies that criminalize rather than attempt to understand mental illness, artists and philosophers may be the first to have the guts to discuss the topic 'publicly' or sympathetically. Such societies may first approach understanding mental illness through art rather than through education, medicine or philanthropy, let alone helpful 'treatment'. For women w/mental illness, societal support toward a true understanding of mental health may be even slower coming than for men, if a male
I haven't read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but from what I understand, Pirsig spends the entire book arriving at the notion of Quality. In Lila, he expands this into a metaphysical framework, which has since come to be called the Metaphysics of Quality ([http://moq.org]). It's more of a philosophical treatise than a novel, and the MoQ is an interesting and appealing framework. I may actually not get around to reading ZMM, but Lila stands well on its own.
I bought this book in Amsterdam, accidentally, for €0.5. It was lying on an old-book shelf that stood right in the street. I was walking past the book shelf after a meditation session and saw the word lila on the cover. I was in the right mood, so purchased this book as a part of inspiration. I havent read Pirsigs first book, but had heard good opinions of it before. It was quite interesting to read Lila for most part of the book. It is more a philosophical reflection rather than a novel per se.
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