Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world. The diffusion of cars and suburbanization have led our society to devalue walking. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction-from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja-finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. In Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche, Rebecca Solnit, an art critic and author of Wanderlust: A History of Walking, argues that suburbanization has fragmented the connection of our body, the world, and imagination that was created by walking. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking tags: ineffable, walking 19 likes Like I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour.

A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Rosesĭrawing together many histories-of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores-Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking.

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