“McKeon was a legendary University of Chicago philosophy professor who inspired 'cold sweat and raw fear' in a long list of students, including Susan Sontag, Richard Rorty, Paul Rabinow, and Robert Pirsig (who used McKeon as the model for the character of the dreaded 'Chairman' in his 1974 novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).” ZenMotorcycle MaintenancePirsigRichard Mckeon Book:Letters to the Contrary: A Curated History of the UNESCO Human Rights Survey Source: Letters to the Contrary: A Curated History of the UNESCO Human Rights Survey