{"id":14133,"date":"2020-03-31T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksonthemove.fr\/produit\/betraying-ambition\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:47:03","slug":"betraying-ambition","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksonthemove.fr\/en\/produit\/betraying-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Betraying Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">What if we were made to believe in ambition because ambition is something good? There is a mantra that tells us \u201cbe ambitious\u201d, but, who dares to dissent from it? What if ambition would have been politicized and ideologized? The reason for writing this book is not to clarify what ambition actually means, but to unpack the ethical implications behind its different meanings. This book is divided in three parts corresponding to three different ethos or ways of living : being ambitious, not being ambitious and, finally, being ambitious and not ambitious at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">INTRODUCTION<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">PART 1. DISSECTING AMBITION<br \/>\nEtymology of Ambition<br \/>\nDefinition of Ambition<br \/>\nAmbition in the Ambience<br \/>\nProfessionalism and Publicity<br \/>\nDesire to be the Chosen One<br \/>\nSelf-Promotion<br \/>\nThe Opportunistic Mind and Networking<br \/>\nCapitalism and Ambition<br \/>\nThe Ambitious Artist<br \/>\nLevels of recognition<br \/>\nParameters of Success<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">PART 2. NEGLECTING AMBITION<br \/>\nThe Reason Why We Do Something<br \/>\nExercising our capacities<br \/>\nInitiative<br \/>\nSide Effects<br \/>\nThe cardinal virtues<br \/>\nDilettantism<br \/>\nThe Non-ambitious Artist<br \/>\nArtworks are more Important than Artists<br \/>\nThe will to Affirm a Different World<br \/>\nCo-apprenticeship: Training the Political Body<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">PART 3. MISCHIEVING AMBITION<br \/>\nTo Betray Your Own Ambition<br \/>\nMischief: the Art of Swerving<br \/>\nIrony: Performing the Paradox<br \/>\nPractices of Infiltration<br \/>\nAnartism<br \/>\nExperimenting in the Art of Living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Diego Agull\u00f3<br \/>\nPublisher: Circadian (3e edtion, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>Paperback: 104 pages<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nISBN13: 978-0-956-95692-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45158,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[135,212,206],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14133","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-english-en","7":"product_cat-artists-books-en","8":"product_cat-philosophy-aesthetics-en","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Betraying Ambition - 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