Research Catalog

Title

Philosophical ridings : motorcycles and the meaning of life / Craig Bourne.

Author

Bourne, Craig.

Publication

Oxford : Oneworld, 2007.

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Details

Description

ix, 209 pages : illustrations; 20 cm

Subject

• Motorcycles
• Philosophy
• Motorcycles
• Philosophy
• motorcycles
• philosophy
• Philosophie
• Motorrad
• Motorrad

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-203) and index.

Contents

Neutral gear -- motorcycles and the meaning of life -- Morbid motivations : the death wish -- Leather, sex and violence : a day in the life of a biker? -- The will to (horse) power -- Angst, authenticity, freedom and meaningfulness -- First gear -- the end of the road : what's so bad about death? -- What is death? -- Is death a harm? -- Second gear -- the nuts and bolts of existence -- The Method, the Meditations and the Matrix -- How to use tools -- A spanner in the works -- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- Peeping Tom and the shed at the bottom of the garden -- Third gear -- full speed ahead -- or riding too fast without a helmet -- The need for speed -- Should we bin the lid for a breath of fresh hair? -- Punishment -- Fourth gear -- saving your bacon : the rights and wrongs of wearing leather -- A little history -- Animal liberation -- Animal deliberation -- What does deliberation matter? -- Swine on the dotted line : contracts with animals -- Taking stock -- Fifth gear -- can tree huggers have rear huggers? : our obligations to the environment and future generations -- Not mushroom for obligations, or do trees have standing? -- Vive la difference? -- Billy-no-mates, the last human alive -- Are two heads better than one? -- Road hogs versus bio-chauvinist pigs -- Seeing the wood for the trees -- Responsibilities to future generations -- Sixth gear -- from spare part to high art : the aesthetics of motorcycles -- Bikers with attitudes -- Do many motorcycles on the road create more roadworks or more artworks? -- From spare part to high art? -- What's it all about?

ISBN

• 9781851685202
• 1851685200

LCCN

2011289122

OCLC

• ocm77013187
• 77013187
• SCSB-1438554

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library