For the love of it
amateuring and its rivals
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Author
Publication
1999 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
59,250 words, Guess
Page Count
237 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL380695M
- ISBN-100226065855
- OCLC Control Number39810855
- OCLC Control Numberforloveofitamat00boot
- Library of Congress Control Number98042920
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- Goodreads1744685
- LibraryThing244054
Classifications
- DDC787.4/092
- LCCML418.B49 A3 1999
Description
For the Love of It is the story not only of the intimate struggle between Wayne Booth and his 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 laboring 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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