Walking into the Void

"This book takes quite an original approach. I enjoyed reading it."

Jean Clottes, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand.

'This book is a tour de force; a beautiful, poetic, scholarly and sensitive archaeology of walking in human history that builds upon the authors’ experience of walking together and their combined theoretical and methodological body of work – a meeting of historical sociology and political anthropology to walk the reader "back towards ourselves". A must-read for all interested in walking as experience, practice, method, art, and pilgrimage.'

Maggie O'Neill, Chair in Sociology/Criminology, University of York, UK, author of Walking Methods: Biographical Research on the Move.

'Walking into the Void by Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai is one of the most beautiful and fascinating books ever written on walking. Walking is outlined as much more than a means of transportation, or an activity among others. It is an experience; an experience that intensifies our aesthetic relationship to the world, hollowing that essential void out of which forms and meanings become ordered. In this book, the most archaic conditions of our culture are the subject of investigation, at the same time as the transgression of modernity is exposed as a disaster.'

Frédéric Gros, Professor of Political Philosophy, SciencesPo, Paris, editor of the Collège de France lectures of Michel Foucault, author of A Philosophy of Walking.