Verlag:
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York
"Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, André Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions? In this engaging and invigorating book, Bruce Baugh takes us on philosophical tour,...
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"Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, André Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions? In this engaging and invigorating book, Bruce Baugh takes us on philosophical tour, following in the footsteps and thoughts of some great philosophers and thinkers. How does walking reveals space and place and provide a heightened sense of embodied consciousness? Can walking in André Breton's footsteps enable us to "remember" Breton's experiences? A chapter on Sartre and Beauvoir investigates walking in relation to anxiety and our different ways of relating to our bodies. Walking in the Quantocks, Baugh seeks out the connection between Coleridge's walking and his poetic imagination. With Rousseau and Nietzsche, he examines the link between solitary mountain walks and great thoughts; with Kierkegaard, he looks at the urban flaneur and the disjunction between outward appearances and spiritual inwardness. Finally, in Sussex and London, Baugh explores how Virginia Woolf transposed a Romantic nature pantheism to London in Mrs. Dalloway. Philosophers' Walks provides a fresh and imaginative reading of great philosophers, offering a new way of understanding some of their major works and ideas"--
Getting to know the neighborhood -- Ambulo ergo sum : the mind-body problem in Gassendi and Descrates -- Walking in André and Nadja's footsteps : a reminiscence -- A closer walk with Sartre and Beauvoir : the exemplarity of walking in Being and Nothingness -- Coleridge, or the ambulatory imagination -- Kierkegaard, the flâneur of Copenhagen -- Rousseau and Nietzsche : solitude and the path of distance -- Virginia Woolf, a country rambler in Londion -- Coda : Ambulo ergo sum (reprise)
