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The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

Andy Merrifield

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9781786631077
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Published by:
Verso
Pub date:
05/29/2018
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
240
ISBN:
9781786631077
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A radical manifesto about doing what you love

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.