Description
Title: Philosophy of Walking
Author: Frederic Gros
ISBN: 9781781688373
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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This “passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things” explores how walking influenced history’s greatest thinkers–from Henry David Thoreau and Jack Kerouac to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer). In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B–the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble–and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.
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