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A philosophy of walking : / Frédéric Gros ; translated by John Howe.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Verso, 2014Description: x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1781682704 (alk. paper)
  • 9781781682708 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Marcher, une philosophie. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Walking is not a sport -- Freedoms -- Why I am such a good walker - Nietzsche -- Outside -- Slowness -- The passion for escape - Rimbaud -- Solitudes -- Silences -- The walker's waking dreams - Rousseau -- Eternities -- Conquest of the wilderness - Thoreau -- Energy -- Pilgrimage -- Regeneration and presence -- The cynic's approach -- States of well-being -- Melancholy wandering - Nerval -- A daily outing - Kant -- Strolls -- Public gardens -- The urban flâneur -- Gravity -- Elemental -- Mystic and politician - Gandhi -- Repetition.
Summary: 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.
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"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." --Nietzsche

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.

Includes bibliographical references.

Walking is not a sport -- Freedoms -- Why I am such a good walker - Nietzsche -- Outside -- Slowness -- The passion for escape - Rimbaud -- Solitudes -- Silences -- The walker's waking dreams - Rousseau -- Eternities -- Conquest of the wilderness - Thoreau -- Energy -- Pilgrimage -- Regeneration and presence -- The cynic's approach -- States of well-being -- Melancholy wandering - Nerval -- A daily outing - Kant -- Strolls -- Public gardens -- The urban flâneur -- Gravity -- Elemental -- Mystic and politician - Gandhi -- Repetition.

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.

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