TY  - GEN
AU  - Gros, Frederic
AU  - Howe, John
TI  - A philosophy of walking 
SN  - 9781781688373
U1  - 128.4 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Walking - Philosphy
KW  - Act - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Suffering - Philosophy
N1  - Table of contents:

1.Walking Is Not a Sport 
2.Freedoms 
3.Why I Am Such a Good Walker Nietzsche 
4.Outside 
5.Slowness 
6.The Passion for Escape Rimbaud 
7.Solitudes 
8.Silences 
9.The Walker's Waking Dreams Rousseau 
10.Eternities 
11.Conquest of the Wilderness Thoreau 
12.Energy 
13.Pilgrimage 
14.Regeneration and Presence 
15.The Cynic's Approach 
16.States of Well-Being 
17.Melancholy Wandering  Nerval 
18.A Daily Outing Kant 
19.Strolls 
20.Public Gardens 
21.The Urban Flaneur 
22.Gravity 
23.Elemental 
24.Mystic and Politician Gandhi 
25.Repetition


N2  - "It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth."--Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frederic 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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ER  -