
How Philosophers Walk (eBook, ePUB)
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"Show me how you walk, and I'll tell you how you think." Aristotle walked in the gymnasium of the Lyceum with his students, Kant took his daily stroll in Königsberg, Rousseau crossed France on foot, Nietzsche walked along the peaks of Sils Maria... The figures of all these philosophers are familiar. Yet we are invited to discover many more thinkers who shaped their ideas by walking, in one way or another. All we need is to follow the philosophers on their wanderings, accompanied by Roger-Pol Droit, from ancient Greece to today, and from Copenhagen to Tibet, to grasp the extent to which bipeda...
"Show me how you walk, and I'll tell you how you think." Aristotle walked in the gymnasium of the Lyceum with his students, Kant took his daily stroll in Königsberg, Rousseau crossed France on foot, Nietzsche walked along the peaks of Sils Maria... The figures of all these philosophers are familiar. Yet we are invited to discover many more thinkers who shaped their ideas by walking, in one way or another. All we need is to follow the philosophers on their wanderings, accompanied by Roger-Pol Droit, from ancient Greece to today, and from Copenhagen to Tibet, to grasp the extent to which bipedal walking defines our human nature. And to understand that walking, speech, and thought form a single movement, made up of near-fall and the subsequent recovery of balance. With twenty-seven vivid, masterful narratives, all centered on walking, Roger-Pol Droit composes a truly original short history of philosophy.
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