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A PHILOSOPHY OF WALKING - FRÉDÉRIC GROS KARTONI...

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth. -Nietzsche 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. From the
Hardcover edition.

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