The Repeater Book of Heroism

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Pub Date 10 May 2022 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2022

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In these impactful first-person essays, a selection of Repeater authors come together to write about what heroism means to them, trying to imagine a new kind of hero figure for the twenty-first century.

"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.
In these impactful first-person essays, a selection of Repeater authors come together to write about what heroism means to them, trying to imagine a new kind of hero figure for the twenty-first...

Advance Praise

"To be on the left, one requires possession of a quixotic sense of romanticism. From the Paris Commune to the Spanish Civil War, Che, the Black Panthers & striking workers - we have always been inspired by sacrificial 'heroes'. The old macho idea of 'great men of history' & the millenarian fashion for non-hierarchal horizontalism killed off the need for such 'heroes'. Sorry, it's a fact that in the 21st century we are in need of new charismatic leaders, heroes even. This book is an unashamed celebration of the everyday heroic. Read and be inspired." – Bobby Gillespie

"To be on the left, one requires possession of a quixotic sense of romanticism. From the Paris Commune to the Spanish Civil War, Che, the Black Panthers & striking workers - we have always been...


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