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Robert Pirsig was an American philosopher and author, best known for his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," which explores the relationship between quality, values, and the philosophy of life through a narrative that blends personal experience with philosophical inquiry.
While reading John Dewey's "Art as Experience" and Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values," a graduate student observed close affinities between what Dewey referred to as "experience" and Pirsig... more
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El siguiente escrito aborda el problema del surgimiento de la individualidad en la poesía arcaica, a partir de dos fragmentos del poeta Arquíloco de Paros (frags. 13S y 128S). Se propone el análisis de dichos fragmentos a partir de la... more
A short story about running, exile, Caliban, and essay writing, written in 2023, summarizing my experience at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (included in the  2022/2023 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Jahrbuch).
Se retoma la crítica a la traducción de los Fragmentos Póstumos de la Ed. Técnos, como pretexto para analizar el pasaje que realiza Nietzsche en los meses sucesivos a la publicación de "Die Gegurt", donde podemos observar una revisión... more
David Granger has written a wonderful book. As I read, I often paused, put it down, and thought. He synthesizes a great deal of work from varied sources, including
This thesis offers a critical discussion of Robert M. Pirsig's 'metaphysics of Quality', based upon his two written works, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and Lila (1991). Discussion is pursued through a... more
This paper offers an exploration and interpretation of Robert M. Pirsig’s key term ‘Quality’; the notion of a pre-intellectual moment that he suggests exists between the thing in itself and rationalisation. I have followed two traces of... more
This article discusses the basic types of concepts of quality occurring in Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. These terms refer to the different conceptual domains, creating diversified... more
La cuestión de la solidaridad en la comunidad de los vivientes es una noción que supone más que lo humano. Si bien Derrida ha expresado su distancia con respecto a las ideas de "comunidad" y de "solidaridad", es posible pensar algún... more
Are there concepts that are eternally true? Concepts that exist outside of and independent of a sentient being who crafted them? Mathematics is thought of by some people as having 'existence' independent of human creation, and thus it... more
Er zijn drie waarheidszoekers met een geschreven nalatenschap aan boeken die ik niet kan wegdenken uit mijn leven zonder dat ik er onherstelbare ethische hersenschade aan overhoud: Jezus, Multatuli en Robert M. Pirsig. Drie grote... more
What Charles Glenn called “the myth of the common school” has produced a flawed cultural narrative about uniform schools: that only traditional public schools can produce democratic citizens and provide equal opportunity for all students.... more
At the dawn of the 21st century, public education in the United States is undergoing intense, fundamental change, a "revolution" possibly as remarkable as the common school movement that gave rise to publicly supported schools. The past... more
La Terapia Multi–Being Una Prospettiva Relazionale In Psicoterapia. Diego Romaioli La terapia Multi-Being. Una prospettiva relazionale in psicoterapia. Ovvero come riunire finezza epistemologica, innovazione metodologica e grazia... more
Though his books have been acclaimed by both critics and non-critics alike, author Robert M. Pirsig has expressed much dissatisfaction over the inability of his readers to fully comprehend the philosophical system he develops in Zen and... more
Resumen: El presente artículo pretende evidenciar el conjunto de imbricacio-nes entre filosofía y literatura a partir de prácticas discursivas que tienen lugar en la literatura infantil y los discursos sobre el animal. De igual modo, se... more
New Yorker Article Complicit in Spreading False Information that Damages the Reputation of Public Education (Original Version of Letter submitted to the New Yorker) The New Yorker (Letter to the Editor) 24 Dec 2012 Original Draft of... more
This essay applies a critical viewpoint to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in an attempt to establish Robert Pirsig as a serious postmodern philosopher. Though Pirsig was seldom approached by mainstream philosophers during the... more
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ABSTRACT Schools are better at expressing social goals than at operationalizing those goals in a manner that might actually realize them. School reform efforts are better at changing the rhetorical commitment of schools to particular... more
Nel saggio si cerca di delimitare e ampliare i confini della terapia familiare sistemica a partire dagli spunti offerti da Gregory Bateson. Non si tratta solo della teoria del doppio legame, ma c'è anche la questione della circolarità del... more
Il racconto di un viaggio in moto e dentro la memoria.
Un libro perennemente attuale che racconta la vita e riflette sul significato dell'esistenza.
This chapter discusses Robert M. Pirsig’s novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) from the perspective of Jacques Derrida’s exploration of various forms of movement. In particular, the notions of counter-movement and “via... more
This manuscript expands on previous treatments of hegemony and social learning by looking at Amy Gutmann's work on education and the how to articulate principles on which educational institutions supportive of democracy may be developed.... more
Este número especial de Instantes y Azares está dedicado a la problemática de los “relaciones peligrosas” (liaisons dangereuses) entre la filosofía y la literatura en la huella nietzscheana. Amantes condenadas al ocultamiento, sin... more
of course, but with the recent rise of a global economy, the emphasis has shifted away from preparing citizens and toward serving the needs of the marketplace.
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The first of what perhaps may be a series of short monograph's situating a reading of Friedrich Nietzsche's magnum opus, 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' from both, the tradition of German Idealism that he militates against as well as his... more
What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information... more
This article discusses the basic types of concepts of quality occurring in Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. These terms refer to the different conceptual domains, creating diversified... more
This article is crafted through three scenes, through which the author tries to imagine quality as something that is third space, semiotic, plasticity, eternal, and simultaneously something solid and obviously good here and now, through a... more
E’ un’osservazione ormai indiscutibile quella per cui i modelli che abbiamo in mente non sono né oggettivi né neutri, ma determinano quello che vediamo, il funzionamento della psiche, l’eziologia dei disturbi, l’evoluzione... more
L'interesse crescente per la corporeità mostrato da alcuni recenti approcci psicoterapeutici sembra accompagnarsi ad un ridimensionamento dell'importanza del linguaggio verbale e della conversazione nel processo terapeutico, fino ad... more
In response to the prompt: "Discuss the claim 'human rights are universal.' Clarify in what senses of the term it may be reasonable to claim that human rights are, or are not, universal. Present arguments pro et
 contra and include your... more
Original Draft of letter to the New Yorker. It was eventually published in a much shorter form. Letter critiques media's credulous use of statistics, esp. the hyperbolic statements about the US being 'outeducated' and how this is... more
Beginning with Amy Gutmann's theory of Democratic Education, the paper explores contemporary education reform in the US by employing a heuristic conceit: contemporary efforts at reforming education in the US –on which there is much... more
La macchina-torre che accampava il cielo è il simbolo araldico segreto che sta nel risvolto di bandiera di ogni impresa comune, perché almeno una volta nella vita una persona viene a trovarsi iscritta insieme ad altre nell' ombra di una... more
Non si vive in uno spazio neutro e bianco; non si vive, non si muore, non si ama nel rettangolo di un foglio di carta. Si vive, si muore, si ama in uno spazio quadrettato, ritagliato, variegato, con zone luminose, zone buie, dislivelli,... more