Harley-Davidson and Philosophy Full-Throttle Aristotle

by Rollin, Bernard E.; Pineo, Cynthia; Mommer, Kerri; Gray, Carolyn M.; Stratman, R. K.

• ISBN13: 9780812695953
• ISBN10: 081269595X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-09
• Publisher: Open Court

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