Harley-Davidson and Philosophy

Full-Throttle Aristotle

By: Bernard E. Rollin, Cynthia Pineo (Editor), Kerri Mommer (Editor), Carolyn M. Gray (Editor), R. K. Stratman (Foreword by)

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It’s no wonder descriptions of riding often resemble the words of Asian mystics and Jedi knights: The ride causes your senses to open completely. You experience only the present, the now. Readers who prefer revving a Harley to meditating in a Zen garden know that biking is just as contemplative as chanting in the lotus position. Here, philosopher-bikers explore this seeming dichotomy, expounding on intriguing questions such as: Why are the motorcycles the real stars of Easy Rider? What would Marx and Foucault say about Harley riders’ tight leather garb? What’s it like to live a dual life as a philosophy professor who wrenches his own 1965 Electra Glide? Would Jesus hang out in a biker bar or a coffeehouse? And more importantly, would He ride a Harley or a Honda? These witty, provocative essays give readers and riders a new appreciation of what it means to become one with the road.

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Foreword	p. ix
Mile Zero: When Your Life Revolves around Harleys	p. xiii
The Ride	p. xv
First Leg: 100 Miles
Zen and the Art of Harley Riding	p. 3
Christ in a Sidecar: An Ontology of Suicide Machines	p. 13
The Biker Bar and the Coffee House: A Paean to the Postmodern Pagans	p. 27
What Can Marx and Hegel Tell Us about Social Divisions among Bikers?	p. 47
Second Leg: 200 Miles
What Are a Bunch of Motorcycles Doing in an Art Museum?	p. 61
Motorcycling, Nihilism, and the Price of Cool	p. 77
Harleys as Freedom Machines: Myth or Fantasy?	p. 89
From Spare Part to High Art: The Aesthetics of Motorcycles	p. 101
Third Leg: 300 Miles
Easy Rider and the Life of Harleys	p. 119
"It's My Own Damn Head": Ethics, Freedom, and Helmet Laws	p. 133
Riding Your Harley Back into Nature: Hobbes, Rousseau, and the Paradox of Biker Identity	p. 145
Last Leg: 400 Miles
Leather-Clad: Eroticism, Fetishism, and Other -isms in Biker Fashion	p. 157
The Wild One, She-Devils on Wheels, and "Motorcycle Syndrome": Foucault and Biker Images	p. 167
Riding along the Way: A Dao of Riding	p. 183
Contributors' Dream Machines	p. 199
Hardcore Index	p. 205
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