Resolving to take more walks in the new year might sound like promising to take more naps--choosing idleness over work. But a lot of clever people don't see it that way [...] Frédéric Gros asks why so many of our most productive writers and philosophers--Rousseau, Kant, Rimbaud, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac--have also been indefatigable walkers.

- Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times

A passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things. And it's beautifully written: clear, simple, precise.

- Carole Cadwalladr, Observer

Poignant life-stories ... are interspersed with the author's own meditations on walking... In the way a landscape is gradually absorbed by the long-distance rambler they steadily build into an insistent exhortation: get up, get out and walk!

Independent

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Impressive.

Telegraph

"Life-affirming stuff."

National Geographic Traveller

"Philosopher Gros ponders walking, that most mundane mode of transportation or exercise, elevating it to its rightful place in inspiring creativity, evoking freedom, and quieting a troubled soul."

Booklist

"This elegant book inspires consideration of an oft-overlooked subject."

Publisher's Weekly

This short, simple and profound book... will be read and re-read.

Times Higher Education

Frédéric Gros asks why so many of our most productive writers and philosophers - Rousseau, Kant, Rimbaud, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac - have also been indefatigable walkers . there are certain magical things that happen on the trail, and Gros is familiar with them. He thinks like a hiker.

Financial Times

An admirable little book which will delight even the most sedentary.

Le Monde

An unclassifiable book in which ideas are illuminated by the bright light of the morning.

L’Express

Unpretentious and refreshing.

- Jonathon Sturgeon, Flavorwire

A long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the sublime.

New York Times

Celebrates the liberation of the mind that comes with walking, especially in natural areas: I hike, therefore, I am.

- Matt Jaffe,

By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life.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.
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New Edition: fully expanded. The international best selling popular philosophy of why we walk
Resolving to take more walks in the new year might sound like promising to take more naps--choosing idleness over work. But a lot of clever people don't see it that way [...] Frédéric Gros asks why so many of our most productive writers and philosophers--Rousseau, Kant, Rimbaud, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac--have also been indefatigable walkers.
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New Edition: fully expanded. The international best selling popular philosophy of why we walk
Great reviews for the hardback in Observer, Financial Times, Telegraph, Independent.,For readers of Robert McFarlane, Will Self and Rebecca Solnit,A manifesto for walking and how it has influenced some of the greatest thinkers in history,Author is a leading public intellectual in France,Walking is claimed to be the most popular outdoor recreational activity in the United Kingdom
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781804290446
Publisert
2023-07-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
480 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biographical note

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.