A Philosophy of Walking

ISBN: 9781781688373 Categorii: Diverse. An apariție: 2015 Autor: Frederic Gros Editură: Verso Books Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 240 Stoc: La comandă

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In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker 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.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Frederic Gros
Data Publicarii
2015
Editura
Verso Books
Latime
14
Inaltime
21
Grosime
1.5
Greutate
300
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
240
Traducatori
John Howe
Ilustrator
Clifford Harper
Premii
Winner English Pen Award
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