Philosophers' Walks

ISBN-13: 9780367333133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Bruce Baugh

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  1. Getting to know the neighbourhood  2. Ambulo, ergo sum: The mind-body problem in Gassendi and Descartes  3. Walking in André and Nadja’s 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 flâneur 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

O autorze

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).