Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus, #2)

In his first book 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 travelling 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 in the seventies."The insights in this book are impossible not to appreciate. The transition from story to discussion topic to other topics and back to the story are so well done that they seem not to happen but that the reader understands. The flow of the analysis is extraordinarily well written. Some topics under analysis are economic order, anthropology, culture, evolution and the thing that ties everything together is value." - Eugene Kernes, Inquiry ReviewsRobert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher, mainly known as the author of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, (1974), which has sold millions of copies around the world. 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. The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance examines life's essential issues as he recounts the journey down the Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus. Reprint. Phaedrus has traded in his motor cycle for a sailboat, his traveling companion, son Chris, for Lila, a woman he met in a bar, and his focus on values for a concentration on morals Phaedrus is traveling in a sailboat down the Hudson River when he meets Lila, a woman who threatens to disrupt his life and causes him to reexamine his personal philosophy Sequel to the wildly popular Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig expands on the ideas of Quality and expands them into a complete Metaphysics of Quality.