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A PHILOSOPHY OF WALKING - FRÉDÉRIC GROS KARTONI...

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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