Talk while walking

'Talk while walking' will be the second work group of The Great Conversation.

Many schools and philosophical circles use walking as a method of encouraging and intensifying reasoning (during the walk). It therefore comes as no surprise that walking is viewed as the quintessential free activity. Walking, however, is also a way of making the body seen; of identifying the human condition by means of a gesture and a method of representation in the form of keeping oneself upright atop two feet. In his Theory of Walking, the writer Honoré de Balzac posed questions which, strange though they might seem, are at the basis of all forms of exercise: “Isn't is really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking ... questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological and political systems which preoccupy the world?”

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