The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love |
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| Authors: | Merrifield, Andy |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| BISAC/Subject: | SEL009000, LIT007000, PHI010000 |
| ISBN: | 9781786631091, Related ISBNs: 1786631067, 1786631075, 1786631091, 9781786631060, 9781786631077 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 240, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Andy Merrifield offers a passionate tribute to the revolutionary spirit of the amateur—a figure who thinks outside the box, takes risks, dreams the impossible dream, seeks independence, and carves out a new world. Merrifield celebrates such square pegs as Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edward Said, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, and Jane Jacobs, each of whom shows us a path of unconventional wisdom and freedom.
The Amateur advocates urgently for the liberated life, one that creates the space to question authority.
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