'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction' with Thomas Nail

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About 'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction': 

Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent
faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant
groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted
civilization? To analyze and understand the depth of the reasons,
Thomas Nail suggests that it serves us well to turn to a
philosophy of movement. Synthesizing and extending many years of
his influential work, The Philosophy of Movement is a
comprehensive argument for how motion is the primary force in
human and natural history.

Nail critiques the bias toward stasis at the core of Western
thought, asking: what would a philosophy that began with the
primacy of movement look like? Interrogating the consequences of
movement throughout history and in daily life in the twenty-first
century, he draws connections and traces patterns between scales
of reality, periods of history, and fields of knowledge. In our
age of rapid movements shaped by accelerating climate change and
ensuing mass global migration, as well as ubiquitous digital
media, Nail provides a contemporary philosophy that helps us
understand how we got here and how to grapple with these
interlocking challenges.

With a foreword by philosopher Daniel W. Smith, The Philosophy of
Movement: An Introduction is a must-read for scholars and
students not only of philosophy but also history, anthropology,
science and technology studies, mobility studies, and other
fields across the humanities and social sciences. 


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