{"title":"Frédéric Gros","description":"Frederic Gros is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris XII and the Institute of Political Studies, Paris. He was the editor of the last lectures of Michel Foucault at the College de France. He has written books on psychiatry, law and war. He lives in Paris.","products":[{"product_id":"a-philosophy-of-walking-paperback","title":"A Philosophy of Walking - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things\" explores how walking influenced history's greatest thinkers--from Henry David Thoreau and Jack Kerouac to Gandhi and Nietzsche (\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B--the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble--and reveals what they say about us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau's eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377609244895,"sku":"9781804290446","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/R7xuNZjHRN9781804290446.webp?v=1789236184"},{"product_id":"a-philosophy-of-shame-a-revolutionary-emotion-hardcover","title":"A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age -- the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new struggles\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation. We feel ashamed of humanity for its ruthless and relentless exploitation of the earth. We feel ashamed of the racism and sexism that permeate society and our everyday lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis difficult emotion is not just sadness or a withdrawal into oneself, nor is it a paralysing sense of inadequacy. As Frédéric Gros argues in \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Shame\u003c\/i\u003e, it arises when our perception of reality rejects passivity and resignation and instead embraces imagination. Shame thus becomes the expression of an anger that is a powerful, transformative force --one that assumes a radical character. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn dialogue with authors such as Primo Levi, Annie Ernaux, Virginie Despentes and James Baldwin, Gros explores a concept that is still little understood in its anthropological, moral, psychological and political depths. Shame is a revolu­tionary sentiment because it lies at the foundation of any path of subjective recognition, transformation and struggle.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377710104799,"sku":"9781804294154","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Du32_CjFq-9781804294154.webp?v=1789239987"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/frederic-gros.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}