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Title: Amateur, The
Author: MERRIFIELD ANDY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2017
Imprint: VERSO
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
A passionate attack against the tyranny of experts.
Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit, and need to re-discover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love.
In The Amateur, thinker Andy Merrifield shows us how the many spheres of our lives – work, knowledge, cities, politics – have fallen into the hands of box tickers, bean counters and rule followers. In response, he corrals a team of independent thinkers, wayward poets, dabblers and square pegs who challenge the accepted wisdom. Such figures as Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Edward Said, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt and Jane Jacobs show us the way. As we will see the amateur takes risks, thinks the unthinkable and seeks independence – and changes the world.
The Amateur is a passionate manifesto for the liberated life, one that questions authority, and reclaims the non
team player as a radical hero of our times.”
ISBN: 9781786634511
Pages: 224