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Fame (Paperback)
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Fame (Paperback)
Series: The Art of Living
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One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has
been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues
that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once
associated with excellence or achievement in some or other field of
endeavour. But today we are obsessed with something that is, in
effect, quite different: fame unconnected with any discernible
distinction, fame that allows a person to be famous simply for
being famous. This book shows why this new fame is simultaneously
fascinating and worthless. To understand this new form of fame,
Rowlands maintains, we have to engage in an extensive philosophical
excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in ancient
Greece between Plato and Protagoras, and was carried on in a
remarkable philosophical experiment that began in
eighteenth-century France. Somewhat like contestants on a reality
TV show, today we find ourselves, unwittingly, playing out the
consequences of this experiment.
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