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The Repeater Book of Heroism (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Repeater Book of Heroism (Hardcover, New edition)
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List price R463
Loot Price R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
You Save R87 (19%)
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"I don't have any heroes, they're all useless", opined John Lydon
in 1976. As a spokesperson of sorts for the punk generation, Lydon
was giving voice to a nihilistic, deconstructive impulse which, for
better or worse, would go on to dominate the next half-century or
so of intellectual, cultural and political life. But isn't one of
the problems with the modern world that we no longer have any real
sense of what heroism is? What if we recovered heroism from the
hands of the fascists and the neoliberal ideologues, and proclaimed
that - despite everything - a hero can and should be something to
be? In these personal, provocative essays, the authors behind the
uncompromising project that is Repeater Books come together to
redefine the idea of the hero for a twenty-first-century public
which desperately needs something to believe in. From Eric Cantona
to Wile E Coyote, Bruno Latour to Paula Rego, forgotten legends and
anonymous family members, this compendium of extraordinary human
behaviour is essential reading for anyone who has ever thought
that, despite what Jean-Paul Sartre said, heaven is other people.
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