Новинки Энди Мерифилда

Энди Мерифилд вдыхает новую жизнь в марксистскую теорию. Книга представляет марксизм, выходящий за рамки дебатов о классе, роли государства и диктатуре пролетариата. Избегая формалистской критики, Мерифилд выступает за пересмотр марксизма и его потенциала, применяя к марксистскому мышлению ранее неисследованные подходы. Это позволяет открыть новые — жизненно важные — пути развития политического активизма и дебатов. Читателю открывается марксизм XXI века, который впечатляет новыми возможностями для политической деятельности.

Профессионалы повсюду. Сегодня мало что происходит без участия профессионального «эксперта», предлагающего свои специальные знания: масштабирование и оценка, измерение и консультирование, планирование и организация жизни миллионов людей по всему миру. В своей книге Энди Мерифилд (род. 1960) противопоставляет эксперту-профессионалу альтернативный образ — любителя, человека, который думает нестандартно, рискует, мечтает о невозможном, стремится к независимости — и тем самым меняет мир. На примере таких личностей, как Шарль Бодлер, Федор Достоевский, Ги Дебор, Ханна Арендт и Джейн Джекобс, Мерифилд показывает, как можно бросить вызов…

A passionate call for independent thinking

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, home, politics—have fallen into the hands of box tickers, bean counters and pedants. In response, he corrals a team of independent thinkers, wayward poets, dabblers and square pegs who challenge accepted wisdom. Such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor 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, seeks independence—and changes the world.

The Amateur is a passionate manifesto for the liberated life, one that questions authority and reclaims the iconoclast as a radical hero of our times.

Ги Дебор (1931–1994) был одним из самых интеллектуальных революционеров XX века. Критик урбанизма и режиссер, искатель приключений и активный участник парижских волнений в мае 1968 года, он одновременно обгонял свое время и отставал от него, разрабатывая теории о демократии и политической власти, которые и по сей день не утратили своей злободневности и остроты. Дебор более известен как лидер авангардистского революционного движения Ситуационистский интернационал (1957–1972) и автор памфлета «Общество спектакля» (1967), разоблачающего послевоенное потребительское общество и капитализм. Противник урбанизации и психогеограф в 1950-е, острый…

Following his hugely popular book, The Wisdom of Donkeys, Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition.

Magical Marxism demands something more of traditional Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a Marxism that moves beyond debates about class, the role of the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat. In escaping the formalist straitjacket of orthodox Marxist critique, Merrifield argues for a reconsideration of Marxism and its potential, applying previously unexplored approaches to Marxist thinking that will reveal vital new modes of political activism and debate.

This book will provoke and inspire in equal measure. It gives us a Marxism for the 21st century, which offers dramatic new possibilities for political engagement.

Guy Debord (1931-94) was one of the most important and intriguing intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Filmmaker and poet, urban critic and political theorist, adventurer and activist extraordinaire during Paris' May 1968 uprisings, Debord was simultaneously behind and ahead of his times. Best-known as guru of the avant-garde revolutionary movement the Situationist International (1957-72), and for a classic indictment of post-war capitalist consumerism The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Debord's life and work remains fascinating to this day. Yet the man himself remained elusive and enigmatic throughout his life. Master urban tactician in the 1950s, political muckraker, organizer and theorist during the 1960s, vagabond throughout the 1970s, fleeing to Spain and Italy, he lived as a recluse during the 1980s and early 1990s in an isolated farmhouse in Champot (Auvergne), behind a high stone wall. Guy Debord crosses over that Champot wall, pushes back Debord's shutters and peers through his windows. It crosses his threshold, drinks his wine, and listens to him talk. Andrew Merrifield focuses on the particulars of Debord's life, shedding light on this admirable yet apparently impenetrable figure, a free spirit who was radically at odds with life but at the same time loved many things in it, and thought them worth fighting for. The book reveals the dynamics of the man, his ideas, and his times which have much to say to our own, equally troubled times. The ideas of Guy Debord, who died only 10 years ago, continue to expose the fragility of our democracy and the mismatch between people and political power today; this book shows that the lessons of Debord are as fresh, subversive, and relevant now as they were forty years ago.