A Selected Bibliography: Works Referencing both Heidegger and Pirsig Found In MLA & JSTOR Databases as of May 2012

by
Patricia Morrill
English Composition at
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara, CA.

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A) Atherton, John H. “Ethnoarchaeology in Africa.” The African Archaeological Review . Vol. 1. (1983): 75-104.

Discussion of inductive and deductive reasoning with regard to archeology and ethnoarcheological studies referencing Heidegger and Pirsig as “see further” only. 25130426

B) Consigny, Scott. “Rhetoric and Madness: Robert Pirsig's Inquiry into Values.” Southern Speech Communication Journal. 41 (1977): 16-32. Print.

A discussion of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as Pirsig’s statement of the paramount importance of emotion and personal values in interpreting and understanding an increasingly technologically based world. Passing reference to Heidegger’s concepts of “moods” and “Sorge” as reflected in Pirsig’s novel. (Article Stable URL:
URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~consigny/pirsig.html

C) Dreyfus, Hubert L. “Holism and Hermeneutics.” The Review of Metaphysics. Vol. 34, No. 1(Sep. 1980): pp. 3-23.

Pirsig is mentioned, and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" referenced when Dreyfus notes Heidegger’s suggestion we nonobjectify and nonsubjectify relating to what surrounds us as he feels Pirsig does with the technology of motorcycles. (Article Stable
URL: http://www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/20127455

D) Durbin, Paul T. “Are There Interesting Philosophical Issues in Technology as Distinct from Science? An Overview of Philosophy of Technology.” PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Vol. 1976, Volume Two: Symposia andInvited Papers (1976), pp. 139-152.

Durbin discusses “the philosophy of technology” citing George Basalla’s theory that “the best” work on the technology is being done outside of academia, via literature and social commentary. (Article Stable
URL: http://www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/192378

E) Erickson, Stephen A. “The Relevance of Meditative Thinking.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy , New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1991), pp. 25-41.

Discusses Heidegger’s “sorge” and connects this to the concept of “care” Erickson finds is “made clear in Pirsig’s now famous Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/25669982

F) Gates, Roberta D. and Kennedy II, George E. “Interface '79-Humanities and Technology: Southern Technical Institute, Marietta, Georgia, October 25-26, 1979.” Technology and Culture Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 1981), pp. 149-156. Print.

Gates and Kennedy reference Hans Braendlin’s use of Pirsig’s “narrator” in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” as an example of a lack of neutrality in language unifying “literary” and scientific” in a discussion on specialization of language. Heidegger is referenced separately as a source used by Ferdinand Alexis Hilenski in “The Surf-Boarder and the Oracle: Heidegger’s and McLuhan’s Shared Vision of Technology.” (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/3104298

G) Hamilton, David. “Writing Science.” College English , Vol. 40, No. 1 (Sep., 1978), pp. 32-40

Discussion of writing in communicating scientific theory and findings. Refers to Heidegger and Pirsig separately; Heidegger’s suggestion to focus upon creativity in the writing process, and Pirsig’s note in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance that detail enables the writer to write (via the section on student essays and “Phaedrus’ instructions to his students in the novel.) (Article Stable URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/376172

H) Hurol, Yonca. “Intellectual Friendship in Architectural Education.” Journal of Aesthetic Education. Vol. 38. No. 3 (Autumn 2004): 73-90.

Contained in the “Notes” section (note 25 in a list) is Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance referenced as a work which decries the final product of student work and criticism of them, as evidencing “education”. References to Heidegger in the article focus on Heidegger’s theory of “authenticity” in relation to his real life friendships. (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/3527444

I) Hyde, Michael J. “The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and the Question of Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric. 27.4 (1994): 374-396. Print.

A focus on Heidegger’s “Dasein” in terms of its temporality, conscience, responsibility to others and “potentiality for being.” While Hyde does not specifically discuss Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he suggests, in his “Notes” section (pg 190), [to see] Scott Consigny’s “Rhetoric and Madness: Robert Pirsig's Inquiry into Values.” Southern Speech Communication Journal. 41 (1977): 16-32, as one of a group of “essays that provide a favorable assessment of rhetoric in light of Heideggerian philosophy.” (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/40237822

J) Lavery, David L. “Dissertations as Fictions.” College English. 41.6 (1980): 675-679. Print.

Posits Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as a Dissertation v. novel. Mentions Heidegger’s “stored away” concept of knowledge but does not delve further than this single mention. (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/375916

K) Payne, David. “Rhetoric, Reality, and Knowledge: A Re-Examination of Protagoras' Concept of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly , Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 187-197. Print.

Pirsig referenced once and Heidegger noted three times in section on subject-object discussion and perception of reality. (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/3885718

L) Palmer, Richard E. “Toward a Postmodern Interpretive Self-Awareness.” The Journal of Religion . Vol. 55. No. 3 (Jul. 1975): 313-326.

Pirsig referenced only in a footnote to “see” "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" for subjectivity and what Palmer calls “philosophies of consciousness”. Heidegger referenced within the text of the article for same. (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/1201463

M) Pickering, John and Attridge, Steve. “Metaphor and Monsters: Children's Storytelling.” Research in the Teaching of English. Vol. 24. No. 4 (Dec.1990): 415-440.

Pickering and Attridge note that Pirsig is one of the new writers whose philosophy is one of accepting the natural world v. opposing it (environmentalism). Mentions Samuel Levin’s stating Heidegger’s pheonomenology an important contribution to understanding apparent deviant utterances. (Article Stable URL:
http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/40171175

O) Solway, David. “Commentary on ‘Spielraum and Teaching,’ or Driving in Mexico.” Curriculum Inquiry. Vol. 31 No. 2 (Summer 2001): 209-216.

Uses Heidegger only as a quote preceding body of article. Mentions Pirsig only to note that the use of “Zen” in a work is now dated. (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/3202254

P) Williams, John R. “Technê-Zen and the Spiritual Quality of Global Capitalism.” Critical Inquiry. Vol. 38. No. 1 (Autumn 2011):17-70.

Williams’ dissertation on what he calls “the discourse of technê-zen” made popular by Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and thus moving culture into a new world of “living with” v. opposed to, technology. Includes Heidegger only as a reference among others to phenomenological and “post-modern” philosophies. (Article Stable
URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.linus.lmu.edu/stable/10.1086/661643

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