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# A Philosophy of Walking

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### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    an easy but disappointing "philosophy"
  

*by H***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015*

This book is easily digested in one sitting. At once scholarly and popular, and at once comprehensive and shallow, it fails in being anything in particular. Each of the 20 or so short chapters focuses, in no particular theoretical or historical order, on a particular characteristic, disposition, or expression of walking (e.g. "eternities," "solitudes"). Some chapters, in so doing, are light summaries of particular figures' walks and/or walking theories/practices (Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rimbaud), while others are surveys of historical or cultural practices (pilgrimage, flanerie). I found the ease of reading the book edifying as a sort of ramble through various categories and characteristics of walking, but I found that its references were useless (no footnotes for quotes; only books are cited by chapter in a bibliography), and that its readings and citations of various figures and practices attempted a profound correlation by simply stating their sources and precedents, but without any complication, synthesis, or unifying theorization. As a researcher of phenomenology, narrativity, and walking, I found this book to be particularly problematic in its easy categorization (or repetition of categorization from others) without any obvious scheme, methodology, or inter-disciplinary focus. Finally, and perhaps most problematically, Gros chooses to read nearly every account of walking as one of autonomy and even privilege (with the slight nod to Rimbaud and Nerval). He pays little attention to the history of fugues, dissociated walkers, and colonized exiles--and in so doing, he perpetuates certain assumptions about the mind/body relation in walking and its representations: for Gros, a capable mind observes, needs, benefits from, and enjoys the walks of the body, and very little narrative/cognition/memory take place through the embedded and embodied site of walking. Most walks in this book, also, are walks of leisure, initiated by the walker, in other words, and not initiated by others' colonial forces. It's almost as if he's ignored the whole history of phenomenology and cognitive studies, as well as biopolitics and post-colonial space theory, in writing a book about minds' narratives of walking--and generating (from nothing, really) his own "philosophy," which is not a philosophy at all.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Take a minute to appreciate the illustrations.
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2022*

You probably need to already have a lot of miles behind you to really enjoy this book. I do, and I relished the subtle depth and breadth of Gros' meditations on this most mundane of activities. It's uneven, chapter to chapter, sure, but we all are.Take a minute or two to appreciate the fine illustrations by Clifford Harper, they'll reorient how you think about paths.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It IS a philosophy book about walking
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2015*

I cannot say enough good things about this book! There is usually a book I go wild for each year and this is this year's book. It will be given to friends who will appreciate and wind up adoring this book. Granted, this is not a book for everyone though.This is truly a philosophy book and it says it right in the title. This is a book about the essence of walking, the experience of walking, the disdain of walking, and famous walking philosophers. Due to this, it is not a mass market book.I am a contemplative who enjoys thinking while walking or running. I resonated with many of the points the author made about slowing down, enjoying the essence of life, and breathing it all in. This hit every pleasure nerve in my contemplative body, hence the excitement behind this book. This is a book about why we walk and the experience of walking rather than about walking.If you enjoy philosophy, contemplation, and really deep and rich writing, walk (don't run) and grab this one. My first truly exciting 5 star of the year.

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