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

by Gros, Frédéric.

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Walking -- Philosophy.

9781781682708 (hc.)

1781682704 (hc.)

Marcher, une philosophie. English English.

x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Translation of: Marcher, une philosophie.

"Winner, English PEN award"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

"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. An entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other. Frédéric Gros is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris"--Provided by publisher.

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