Ebook: In Praise of the Bicycle
Author: Marc Augé, Teresa Lavender Fagan
- Tags: Cycling--Social aspects., Bicycles--Environmental aspects., Urban transportation--Philosophy.
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- City: London, United Kingdom
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Witness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before. Marc Augé coined the term "non-place" to describe the ubiquitous airports, hotels, and motorways filled with anonymous individuals. In this new book, he casts his anthropologist's eye on a subject close to his heart: cycling. With In Praise of the Bicycle, Augé takes us on a two-wheeled ride around our cities and on a personal journey into ourselves. We all remember the thrill of riding a bike for the first time and the joys of cycling. Here he reminds us that these memories are not just personal, but rooted in a time and a place, in a history that is shared with millions of others. Part memoir, part manifesto, Augé's book celebrates cycling as a way of reconnecting with the places in which we live, and, ultimately, as a necessary alternative to our disconnected world.
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