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Running is Life : Transcending the Crisis of Modernity

By Bruce Fleming

Book information

Publisher
UPA
Year
2010
ISBN
9780761851769, 9780761851752
LCC
PS3556.L435 -- Z55 2010eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1010 kB (1033972 bytes)
Pages
135\0
Time added
2023-08-04 09:41:04
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Description

Running feels good. It also centers the runner in the world, solves the problems implied by the Cartesian split between body and soul, and establishes an active relationship between the self and others. Running takes the motion we are all born with (that is the essence of life) and with the individual providing the impetus, projects us into the world of others. When we run, we transcend ourselves and place ourselves in the world. Running is Life is set in many places—Cairo, the Eastern Sierras, Las Vegas, New York's Adirondack Mountains, and Barcelona, among others—but always in the moving body of the runner hurtling both through and into the world. Running is Life is both a hymn to human motion and an explanation of its sweetness.

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