LEADER 03830oam 2200661I 450 001 9910785427603321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-317-48850-4 010 $a1-317-48851-2 010 $a1-315-71029-3 010 $a1-282-94744-3 010 $a9786612947445 010 $a1-84465-426-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315710297 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066659 035 $a(EBL)1886939 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000475247 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12180109 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000475247 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10463328 035 $a(PQKB)10296641 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1886939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1886939 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10455509 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL294744 035 $a(OCoLC)842588937 035 $a(OCoLC)958110012 035 $a(OCoLC)715184689 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135939 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781844654260 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066659 100 $a20180706e20142008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFame /$fMark Rowlands 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (122 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aThe art of living series 300 $aFirst published 2008 by Acumen. 311 $a1-138-16110-1 311 $a1-84465-157-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGirls gone wild : fame and vfame -- Footnotes to Plato -- The enlightenment project -- Lightness and weight -- From suicide bombers to young hot Hollywood -- Paris Hilton and the end of history. 330 $aOnce a title held only by a privileged few, fame went hand-in-hand with respect and hard work. To be famous meant that you had achieved something noteworthy, or had an exceptional talent. But things have changed, as demonstrated by the number of singularly untalented people who are currently famous. Why has there been such a shift in our notion of fame and why has the desire for fame become such a powerful motivation for so many people? Mark Rowlands brings his philosophical expertise to bear on our concept of fame and explores the reasons behind its radical transformation. To understand this “new variant fame”, Rowlands argues, we must engage in an extensive philosophical excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in fourth-century BC Athens. Rowlands reveals that our presentday notion of fame and the extremes that accompany it are symptoms of a significant cultural change: the decline of Enlightenment ideas has seen individualism eclipse objectivism about value, so much so that what characterizes Western society today is its constitutional inability to distinguish quality from bullshit. This, argues Rowlands, is the predicament in which we find ourselves today and which explains how fame can now be unconnected with any discernible distinction: we have lost any grip on the idea that there might be objective standards of evaluation even for some of the most important choices we make. A fascinating mix of amusing anecdote and serious philosophical reflection, Fame presents us with a new way of looking at and understanding fame as we now know it, one that shows us how and why we have become the fame-hungry people we are today. It is a book written for anyone who has wondered how the world could ever have turned out like this. 410 0$aArt of living series (Acumen Publishing) 606 $aFame$xPhilosophy 615 0$aFame$xPhilosophy. 676 $a303.37201 700 $aRowlands$b Mark.$0715267 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785427603321 996 $aFame$93734266 997 $aUNINA