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A philosophy of walking :
- Title
- A philosophy of walking : / Frédéric Gros ; translated by John Howe.
- Author
- Gros, Frédéric.
- Publication
- London : Verso, 2014.
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- Description
- x, 227 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Marcher, une philosophie. English
- Alternative Title
- Marcher, une philosophie.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-2655
- ISBN
- 9781781682708 (alk. paper)
- 1781682704 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013045065
- OCLC
- 856977651
- Author
- Gros, Frédéric.
- Title
- A philosophy of walking : / Frédéric Gros ; translated by John Howe.
- Publisher
- London : Verso, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-2655