For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Tapa dura

Booth, Wayne C.

 
9780226065854: For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
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ISBN 10: 0226065855 ISBN 13: 9780226065854
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Sinopsis

Why would anyone spend free hours and weekends on a demanding practice that promises no payoff in money, fame, or power? Is it true that anything worth doing is worth doing only if you can get credit for doing it really well? Why do amateurs do what they do? Wayne Booth found himself enticed by these questions after taking up the cello at age 31 and then experiencing decades not just of unforeseen struggle but of comic and humiliating disasters - followed by hours of astonishing bliss playing chamber music. This book tells the story not only of this intimate struggle between man and cello but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and payoff and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it. This fundamental opposition leads Booth into diverse meditations on how amateuring relates to all other loves and pleasures. In his celebration of how the amateur's labouring can blossom, he thus joins a long line of thinkers who have puzzled over the meanings of "fun", "work" and "love."

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<div><b>Wayne C. Booth</b> (1921&#8211;2005) was the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His many books include <i>The Rhetoric of Fiction</i>,<i> A Rhetoric of Irony</i>,<i> The Power and Limits of Pluralism</i>, <i>The Vocation of a Teacher</i>, and <i>For</i><i>the Love of It</i>, all published by the University of Chicago Press.</div>

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226065855
ISBN 13 
9780226065854
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
248
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Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2000
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