{"product_id":"against-ambition-isbn-9781915672032","title":"Against Ambition","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplores the effect that capitalist ambition has on our psyches and societies, and what a world without ambition might look like.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst Ambition \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the psychological and societal impact of capitalist ambition and imagines a world liberated from its pressures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCritical Exploration of Ambition: Analyses how ambition became the dominant force shaping our lives since the 1980s, pushing us to view success as solely our responsibility—and failure as our fault.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cult of Capitalist Success: Bill Peel critiques how capitalism turned ambition into an endless cycle of \"rise and grind,\" passive income pursuits, and corporate competition, pushing us into self-sacrificing, goal-oriented lives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Call to Reimagine Life Beyond Ambition: Argues that relentless ambition undermines collective action and turns individuals into isolated social climbers, hindering efforts to create a more equitable world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRadical Freedom in Letting Go: Advocates for a life freed from constant self-improvement, valuing the right to \"waste time\" as a radical act against neoliberal values.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor readers interested in social criticism, capitalism’s influence on personal identity, or alternative views on productivity and success, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Ambition\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful challenge to the “cult of ambition.”\"Bill Peel has the unlikely ambition to abolish ambition, to quash it, to free us from it, or at the very least, get its dirty iron heel off our throats. He makes the case that we and the world would be better off with much, much less of it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Tom Lutz,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAimlessness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand the novel \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBorn Slippy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Peel \u003c\/b\u003eis writer from regional New South Wales, Australia. His debut book \u003ci\u003eTonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2023. His other writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAstral Noize\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e, but he spends more time doing nothing of note.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302131945701,"sku":"NP9781915672032","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781915672032.jpg?v=1767721124","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/against-ambition-isbn-9781915672032","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}