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9781844651573: Fame
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1844651576 ISBN 13 : 9781844651573
Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1844651576
ISBN 13 
9781844651573
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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