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A Philosophy of Walking

A Philosophy of Walking

Gros, Frédéric
Howe, John

Paperback

PhilosophyTravel Writing

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1804290440
ISBN13: 9781804290446
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jul 11 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.19 Depth: 7.84
Language: English
This philosophical ode to finding joy in simple things explores how walking has influenced history's greatest thinkers--from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche.

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth. --Nietzsche

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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