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The amateur : the pleasures of doing what you love / Andy Merrifield.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
306.487 MERR	Adult Non Fiction		Padstow .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781786634511 (paperback)
ISBN	9781786631060 (hardback)
Name	Merrifield, Andy author.
Title	The amateur : the pleasures of doing what you love / Andy Merrifield.
Published	London ; New York : Verso, 2017.
Published	©2017
Description	xv, 219 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover 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 Charles 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.
Subjects	Amateurism
	Self-culture
	Hobbies
	Curiosity
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Amateurism . Curiosity . Hobbies . Self-culture . See Also: Culture . Gap years. . Mnemonics . Authors: Merrifield, Andy .