The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

By Andy Merrifield

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786631075
• ISBN13: 9781786631077
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"