From the peripatetic philosophers of Ancient Greece to the streets of 20th-century London, Paris, and New York, the figure of writer as walker has continued to evolve through the centuries, the philosopher and the Romantic giving way to the experimentalist and radical. From pilg…
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 tr…
Kaj imata skupnega hoja in filozofija? "Le tiste ideje, ki smo jih dobili med sprehodom, nekaj veljajo," je menil Nietzsche. Avtor knjige, Frédéric Gros, profesor politične filozofije na pariški univerzi za politične vede, odgovarja, da naravni prostor mislecev, intelektualcev i…
Charting the many different ways we get from A to B, the author draws attention to the thinkers who saw walking as a central part of their practice, from Henry David Thoreau to Nietzsche, making us reconsider this everyday activity.
"Asks why so many of our writers and philosophers have also been indefatigable walkers." - Financial Times "It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." - Nietzsche By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name …
"By walking we escape the idea itself of identity, the desire to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom experienced when walking is about not being anyone because the body that walks has no history; it just has an eternal current of life." In A Philosophy of Wa…
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 tr…
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 tr…
"Since the early 2000s there has been an increase in artists who are walking as an essential part of their artistic practice. This book identifies the unique attributes of walking to develop a definition for walking as an artistic medium. Drawing on historical sources, such as t…
Since the early 2000s there has been an increase in artists who are walking as an essential part of their artistic practice. This book identifies the unique attributes of walking to develop a definition for walking as an artistic medium. Drawing on historical sources, such as th…
Since the early 2000s there has been an increase in artists who are walking as an essential part of their artistic practice. This book identifies the unique attributes of walking to develop a definition for walking as an artistic medium. Drawing on historical sources, such as th…
"Since the early 2000s there has been an increase in artists who are walking as an essential part of their artistic practice. This book identifies the unique attributes of walking to develop a definition for walking as an artistic medium. Drawing on historical sources, such as t…
