Past Event
Monday, May 6, 2024, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at 50
330 Park Boulevard, San Diego, 92101
Age Limit: 18+
Cost: Free
Philosophy Talk: Professor Steven Barbone of SDSU’s Philosophy Department leads a 50th anniversary discussion of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, one of the most influential books of the past half century and the bestselling philosophical book of all time. A summer motorcycle trip across the American West undertaken by a father and his son, the book is a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. Can a parent’s ferocious love counter the everyday confusions of existence? Might the care for a technological object like a motorcycle lead to clarity? And when is a motorcycle not a motorcycle?