New Edition: fully expanded. The international best selling popular philosophy of why we walk
Frederic Gros is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris XII and the Institute of Political Studies, Paris. He was the editor of the last lectures of Michel Foucault at the College de France. He has written books on psychiatry, law and war. He lives in Paris.
Resolving to take more walks in the new year might sound like
promising to take more naps--choosing idleness over work. But a lot
of clever people don't see it that way [...] Frédéric Gros asks why
so many of our most productive writers and philosophers--Rousseau,
Kant, Rimbaud, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nietzsche, Jack
Kerouac--have also been indefatigable walkers.
*Financial Times*
A passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple
things. And it's beautifully written: clear, simple, precise.
*Observer*
Poignant life-stories ... are interspersed with the author's own
meditations on walking... In the way a landscape is gradually
absorbed by the long-distance rambler they steadily build into an
insistent exhortation: get up, get out and walk!
*Independent*
Impressive.
*Telegraph*
"Life-affirming stuff."
*National Geographic Traveller*
"Philosopher Gros ponders walking, that most mundane mode of
transportation or exercise, elevating it to its rightful place in
inspiring creativity, evoking freedom, and quieting a troubled
soul."
*Booklist*
"This elegant book inspires consideration of an oft-overlooked
subject."
*Publisher's Weekly*
This short, simple and profound book... will be read and
re-read.
*Times Higher Education*
Frédéric Gros asks why so many of our most productive writers and
philosophers - Rousseau, Kant, Rimbaud, Robert Louis Stevenson,
Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac - have also been indefatigable walkers .
there are certain magical things that happen on the trail, and Gros
is familiar with them. He thinks like a hiker.
*Financial Times*
An admirable little book which will delight even the most
sedentary.
*Le Monde*
An unclassifiable book in which ideas are illuminated by the bright
light of the morning.
*L’Express*
Unpretentious and refreshing.
*Flavorwire*
A long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the
sublime.
*New York Times*
Celebrates the liberation of the mind that comes with walking,
especially in natural areas: I hike, therefore, I am.
*Matt Jaffe*
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