Explores the philosophy of walking by following the author on the walks made by Sartre, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rousseau and other philosophers.
Walking is fundamental to the work of some famous philosophers but until this book has been a neglected topic.
Also includes chapters on Coleridge, Andre Breton and surrealism and Virginia Wolff to consider the wider intellectual context of walking.
Bruce Baugh travelled extensively to retrace the walks by these figures, so the book is able to relate the walks themselves to the ideas of the philosophers discussed.
Bruce Baugh is Professor Emeritus in of Philosophy at Thompson Rivers University, Canada. His books include French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism (Routledge, 2003), and a translation of Benjamin Fondane's Existential Monday. Philosophical Essays (2016).
Title: Philosophers� Walks
Author: Baugh, Bruce
ISBN: 9780367333133
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-11-30
Number of Pages: 252
Weight: 0.4101 kg
... [A] stimulating complex of scholarship and imaginative travelogue. ...Baugh employs an approach even more engaging for the degree to which it is open and expansive, as if the very breezes that blow through some of his nature walks blow through his writing. ... There is enough in the breadth of topics and ideas that the book could be read with pleasure by just about anyone with an active and curious mind. - Theo Dombrowski, The Ormsby Review
This is a big book, despite being less than 240 pages. The thoughts come so densely, and any respite in the minutiae of described wanders is drenched in thinking too. - Phil Smith, University of Plymouth, UK
This is a marvelous book! It's literate, engaging, philosophically sophisticated, and intellectually expansive. The culmination of long, thoughtful, and passionate intellectual labor, it is deeply grounded in texts, in personae, in places, and in philosophical ideas. I can see myself returning to it again and again. - Peter S. Fosl, Transylvania University, USA
We know that walking stimulates meditative thought, and we know that many great thinkers have been committed walkers. Baugh is walking, too, both literally in his native Kamloops and metaphorically through a remarkable range of important texts. His work is personal, without compromising on scholarship. This is a book to be read and re-read, and tucked into a backpack before setting out from home. - Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USA
