The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love
Description
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.
PUBLISHER:
Verso Books
ISBN-10:
1786631075
ISBN-13:
9781786631077
BINDING:
Paperback
BISAC:
Self-Help
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2018
NUMBER OF PAGES:
240
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
0.7(H) x 5.1(W) x 7.8(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English