Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity Pedestrian Mobility in Liter
This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction w
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Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Klaus Benesch • François Specq Editors
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts
Editors Klaus Benesch Department of English and American Studies LMU Munich Munich, Germany
François Specq Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon & CNRS (IHRIM) Lyon, France
ISBN 978-1-137-60282-4 ISBN 978-1-137-60364-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7
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MODERN(S) WALKING: AN INTRODUCTION
If life is a journey through time and space, from early childhood to old age, and from our birthplace to the places where we seek employment, found families, or eventually retire to and pass away, much of that journey will be done on foot or, more precisely, by way of walking. Though rarely questioned as a form of universal movement, walking, as Balzac famously claimed, appears to be at the center of the human condition. An important cultural technique in its own right, walking allows us to interact with the environment in unique ways: through walking we acquire a sense of physical space and we learn how to measure distances, how to distinguish that which is far off from what is immediate and close by. Put another way, walking defines our experience of self and of the world. It also provides insight into the complex skein of human life itself. While walking, mathematician William Rowan Hamilton finally thought of a formula for the analysis of three-dimensional space, and Karl Marx, perambulating with his son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, th
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