Lits thoughts on this? Yeah sure its pseudo- philosophy but I

I appreciated it more for its portrayal of the narrator's/author's mental illness. Like you said, the philosophy is pretty pseudy, but it's an interesting way of getting the reader to sympathize with Phaedrus.

I like how desperately the narrator tries to present his philosophy in a sensible, detached way, as if he's struggling to hide his ego-mania.

>>8591250
yes so true, its fucking interesting how even in his most stable chapters there are undertones of the facade slipping away

>>8591166
>interpretation of zeitgeist

care to summarize?

The travelogue/personal history parts are pretty comfy. The rest of it is a relatively unoriginal defense of Sophistry/Areté, except that Pirsig thought he was saying something new, and all his readers agreed (clearly, they all did *not* start with the Greeks). His portrayal of Richard McKeon isn't really fair either, but it's veiled enough to not be too much of a fault.

His later work 'Lila' is both better and more pseud all at once.

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>>8591166
>uses zen in title to sell books

>>8591461
sorry, dumb first year uni student generalisation: I think his interpretation of 60's countercultural aesthetic priorities v "ugly science" is v apt

>>859169
im interested to read further on this, recommend pls ("sophistry/arete")