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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew BeaumontPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Weight: 0.316kg ISBN: 9781804290071ISBN 10: 1804290076 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 05 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Body Arrested 1. The Racialized Body: Fanon Walks with Garnette Cadogan 2. The Exploited Body: Fanon Walks with Ernst Bloch 3. The Disordered Body: Fanon Walks with Nikolaus Friedreich 4. The Paralysed Body: Fanon Walks with Peter Moss 5. The Armoured Body: Fanon Walks with Wilhelm Reich 6. The Body Transformed: Fanon Walks with Assia Djebar Notes IndexReviewsOne of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics -- Terry Eagleton, author of <i>How to Read Literature</i> "Beaumont is one of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics -- Terry Eagleton, author of <i>How to Read Literature</i> In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Beaumont reminds us that walking is far from a neutral activity; it is, rather, ""irreducibly political"". With the help of Frantz Fanon, Beaumont locates freedom at the level of the body; free from the systems of oppression, exploitation, and harassment. -- Lauren Elkin, author of <i>Flâneuse</i>" One of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics -- Terry Eagleton, author of <i>How to Read Literature</i> Praise for The Walker * : * Matthew Beaumont's prose is the golden thread of elegance and erudition we need to guide us through the labyrinth of the modern city. These essays confirm him to be simultaneously the possessor of a coherent and convincing overview of emergent Modernist thought and creativity in the urban context, and the inheritor of all the radical subjectivities he engages with. -- Will Self An uncanny and haunting foreshadowing of our cities as they now appear to us ... familiar subjects are given revelatory new interpretations ... thought-provoking. -- Margaret Drabble * TLS * Drawing on numerous literary sources, both familiar and obscure, Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking. -- Sean O'Hagan * The Observer * An erudite book that moves at a pace alternating between brisk and leisurely ... Like his prose, Beaumont's mind is anything but pedestrian. He is as attuned to matters of medicine and science, anthropology, economics, philosophy and psychology as he is to literature and the visual arts -- Willard Spiegelman * Wall Street Journal * [A] heady blend of history and theory. * The New Yorker * Praise for Nightwalking * : * Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography. * Financial Times * Author InformationMatthew Beaumont is a Professor in the Department of English at University College, London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009). He is the author of the highly acclaimed Nightwalking, and The Walker. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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