The Amateur
The Pleasures of Doing What You Love| By: | Andy Merrifield |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Services |
| Print ISBN: | 9781786631060 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781786631091 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.