A Philosophy of Walking

Gros, Frederic

ISBN 10: 1781688370 / ISBN 13: 9781781688373

Edité par Verso Books, 2015

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l'auteur: Frederic Gros is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris XII and the Institute of Political Studies, Paris. He was the editor of the last lectures of Michel Foucault at the College de France. He has written books on psychiatry, law and war. He lives in Paris.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : A Philosophy of Walking
Éditeur : Verso Books
Date d'édition : 2015
Reliure : Couverture souple
Illustrateur : Harper, Clifford
Etat : Very Good