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Philosophers Walks Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)

Philosophers Walks By Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)

Philosophers Walks by Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)


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This engaging book takes us on philosophical tour, following in the footsteps and thoughts of some great philosophers and thinkers. A fresh and imaginative reading of great philosophers, offering a new way of understanding some of their major works and ideas.

Philosophers Walks Summary

Philosophers Walks by Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)

Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Andre Breton, Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir: who could imagine a better group of walking companions? In this engaging and invigorating book, Bruce Baugh takes us on a philosophical tour, following in the footsteps and thoughts of some great philosophers and thinkers.

How does walking reveal space and place and provide a heightened sense of embodied consciousness? Can walking in Andre Bretons footsteps enable us to "remember" Bretons experiences? A chapter on Sartre and Beauvoir investigates walking in relation to anxiety and our different ways of responding to our bodies. Walking in the Quantocks, Baugh seeks out the connection between Coleridges walking and his poetic imagination. With Rousseau and Nietzsche, he examines the link between solitary mountain walks and great thoughts; with Kierkegaard, he looks at the urban flaneur and the disjunction between outward appearances and spiritual inwardness. Finally, in Sussex and London, Baugh explores how Virginia Woolf transposed a Romantic nature pantheism to London in Mrs. Dalloway.

Philosophers Walks provides a fresh and imaginative reading of great philosophers, offering a new way of understanding some of their major works and ideas.

Philosophers Walks Reviews

" [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

"The relationship between sojourning and thinking/contemplation is a fascinating one and Baugh's Philosophers' Walks brings its chosen walker-thinkers into vivid portrayal. Baugh's careful and detailed scholarship combined with reenactments of these philosophers' walks give us readers a sense of what it might mean to think these thoughts and take these pathways. In that way, he makes philosophizing less abstract and more personal. This book is a fine addition to the genre." - Ronald J. Manheimer, author of Mirrors of the Mind

"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! Its 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


" [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

"... [W]ill appeal to a wide and diverse readership It opens up new perspectives on the life and work of virtually all the philosophers and writers treated." - James Crooks, Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy

"The relationship between sojourning and thinking/contemplation is a fascinating one and Baugh's Philosophers' Walks brings its chosen walker-thinkers into vivid portrayal. Baugh's careful and detailed scholarship combined with reenactments of these philosophers' walks give us readers a sense of what it might mean to think these thoughts and take these pathways. In that way, he makes philosophizing less abstract and more personal. This book is a fine addition to the genre." - Ronald J. Manheimer, author of Mirrors of the Mind

"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! Its 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

About Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)

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 Fondanes Existential Monday. Philosophical Essays (2016).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Getting to know the neighbourhood 2. Ambulo, ergo sum: The mind-body problem in Gassendi and Descartes 3. Walking in Andre and Nadjas footsteps: a reminiscence 4. A closer walk with Sartre and Beauvoir: the exemplarity of walking in Being and Nothingness 5. Coleridge, or the ambulatory imagination 6. Kierkegaard, the flaneur of Copenhagen 7. Rousseau and Nietzsche: solitude and the pathos of distance 8. Virginia Woolf, a country rambler in London 9. Coda: Ambulo ergo sum (reprise). Index

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NPB9780367333157
9780367333157
0367333155
Philosophers Walks by Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-11-30
252
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