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Subject: Re: Pirsig
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Date: Sun, 29-Apr-84 17:50:31 EDT
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	No, Pirsig's work hasn't been taken up and taken
seriously by the academic philosophical world (to which I
belong).  There are various (sometimes academic/political)
reasons for this--not all of them bad.
	Pirsig had a Guggenheim Fellowship a couple of years
after *Zen and...* came out--to work out a metaphysics (?) [or
maybe a Weltanschauung.  I forget.]  based on his notion of
Quality.  As far as I know, nothing public has yet come of it.

Yours for clearer concepts,       --Jay Rosenberg
				    Dept. of Philosophy
...mcnc!ecsvax!unbent		    Univ. of North Carolina
				    Chapel Hill, NC  27514