Caminar, una filosofia

Walking, in any of its forms, has more and more followers who know how to enjoy its virtues and receive its benefits: a feeling of peace, communion with nature, fullness... Many of us benefit from it, because walking it needs no learning, no technique, no material, no money. We just need our body, a space and a little time. This book attempts to understand the walk as a philosophical act or as a spiritual experience. That is why he uses great historical, philosophical or literary figures for whom walking was a disposition of thought or inspiration: Rimbaud and the desire to flee, Nietzsche and the call of the heights, Gandhi and the politics of resistance, without forgetting Kant and his daily marches in Königsberg. It also deals with the existential or mystical dimensions of walking: eternity, loneliness, silence, slowness, what is outside, energy, freedom... The author does not neglect to describe its cultural dimensions: the pilgrimage, the erratic wandering, the walk. As soon as a philosophical treatise as a definition of an art of walking, this book is intended for all those who until now were not thought to be thinkers.