This thesis addresses walking as its main subject and makes it its task to think and articulate its emancipatory potential in the context of contemporary time and space. After identifying the research gap, the selected bodily practice is discussed theoretically through the social sciences and humanities at the level of its relation to the existing social system and its spatial and temporal manifestations. In order to understand the social conditionality of space and time, as well as the way our bodies are perceived and used, we begin this work with a critical analysis of the existing social system, i.e. neoliberalism, within which we develop a conceptual tool to show how and where we can look for the neoliberal particularities of space, previously introduced as essentially social. In our search for a space that has the potential to break with the existing one, we draw on the notion of the space of enjoyment as a space conditioned by and emanating from the body. The argumentation of such a starting point and its connection to language is later reinforced by recourse to the field of phenomenology. The dissertation then examines earlier literature relevant to this context, traces the history of walking, and elaborates the dimensions through which walking can be thought of as a potentially subversive and emancipatory practice that can open up existing uses of space, time and the body. In the final section, more abstract theoretical efforts are illustrated through a case study in which specific guided walks are selected as the main unit, considered from the perspective of walking, and linked in interpretation to previously developed concepts, while the emancipatory potential of walking is extended to the category of the universal.
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