Frederick Gros

Is walking entirely a leisure pursuit? Might walking do for the mind what it does for the body – make it healthier? Why were so many of the most productive and remembered writers, thinkers, and philosophers, such as Rousseau, Kant, Rimbaud, and Nietzsche, such indefatigable walkers? Why walk when you could run, ride, or sit?

Author of books on psychiatry, law, and war, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris, and editor of the last lectures of Michel Foucault, Frederic Gros has written A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France. In it, step by step, with erudition, wit, and wonder, he examines and reveals what walking tells us about ourselves.