Harley-Davidson and Philosophy Full-Throttle Aristotle,9780812695953

Harley-Davidson and Philosophy Full-Throttle Aristotle

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ISBN13: 9780812695953
ISBN10: 081269595X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-09
Publisher(s): Open Court
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Summary

Why do we imagine that riding a motorcycle makes us freer than driving a car? Are the bikes themselves the real stars of Easy Rider? Is Motorcycle Syndrome a medical deployment of sexuality? Did Jesus ride a Hog into Jerusalem? Is there an ontology of suicide machines and what could we do with it? What would John Stuart Mill have thought about compulsory helmet laws? Do Harleys really belong in art museums? Just how did FTW nihilists become as marketable as apple pie? Is there a teleological ghost in the Harley machine? Can we ride our manufactured metal mojos back into a State of Nature? What is it about the biker's worldview that isn't at home in Starbucks, and what did the ancient Greeks have to say about that? Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword by R.K. Stratman ix
Mile Zero
When Your Life Revolves around Harleys
BERNARD E. ROLLIN
xiii
THE RIDE xv
First Leg: 100 Miles
1. Zen and the Art of Harley Riding
GRAHAM PRIEST
3(10)
2. Christ in a Sidecar: An Ontology of Suicide Machines
RANDALL E. AUXIER
13(14)
3. The Biker Bar and the Coffee House: A Paean to the Postmodern Pagans
RANDALL E. AUXIER
27(20)
4. What Can Marx and Hegel Tell Us about Social Divisions among Bikers?
JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN
47(14)
Second Leg: 200 Miles
5. What Are a Bunch of Motorcycles Doing in an Art Museum?
BERNARD E. ROLLIN
61(16)
6. Motorcycling, Nihilism, and the Price of Cool
ALAN R. PRATT
77(12)
7. Harleys as Freedom Machines: Myth or Fantasy?
FRED FELDMAN
89(12)
8. From Spare Part to High Art: The Aesthetics of Motorcycles
CRAIG BOURNE
101(18)
Third Leg: 300 Miles
9. Easy Rider and the Life of Harleys
GRAHAM HARMAN
119(14)
10. "It's My Own Damn Head": Ethics, Freedom, and Helmet Laws
BERNARD E. ROLLIN
133(12)
11. Riding Your Harley Back into Nature: Hobbes, Rousseau, and the Paradox of Biker Identity
STEVEN E. ALFORD
145(12)
Last Leg: 400 Miles
12. Leather-Clad: Eroticism, Fetishism, and Other -isms in Biker Fashion
SUZANNE FERRISS
157(10)
13. The Wild One, She-Devils on Wheels, and "Motorcycle Syndrome": Foucault and Biker Images
GARY L. KIEFFNER
167(16)
14. Riding along the Way: A Dao of Riding
DAVID JONES
183(16)
Contributors' Dream Machines 199(6)
Hardcore Index 205

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