02583cam a2200517M 4500 ocn842588937 OCoLC 20200709060307.0 m d cr |nu 080617e20080821quc eo 000 0 eng AU@ eng AU@ OCLCO COO OCLCQ N$T 9781317488514 electronic bk. 1317488512 electronic bk. 9781844651573 1844651576 AU@ 000050961433 AU@ 000053015385 (OCoLC)842588937 924350 (N$T) 00305701 BJ1470.5 SOC 000000 bisacsh 303.37201 22 N$TA Rowlands, Mark. Fame [electronic resource]. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, Aug. 2008. 1 online resource (128 p.) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier The Art of Living Ser. Annotation. "Mark Rowland s brings his philosophical expertise to bear on our concept of fame and explores the reasons behind its radical transformation. To understand this "new variant fame", Rowlands argues, we must engage in an extensive philosophical excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in fourth-century BC Athens. Rowlands reveals that our present day notion of fame and the extremes that accompany it are symptoms of a significant cultural change: the decline of Enlightenment ideas has seen individualism eclipse objectivism about value, so much so that what characterizes Western society today is its constitutional inability to distinguish quality from bullshit. This, argues Rowlands, is the predicament in which we find ourselves today and which explains how fame can now be unconnected with any discernible distinction: we have lost any grip on the idea that there might be objective standards of evaluation even for some of the most important choices we make."--BOOK JACKET. College Audience McGill-Queen's University Press. Fame. Celebrities. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Electronic books. Ebrary Academic Complete Subscription Collection. The Art of Living Ser. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=924350 EBSCOhost EBSC 924350 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 55830 55830