02583cam a2200517M  4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007000700055008004100062040004200103020003400145020003100179020001800210020001500228029002200243029002200265035002100287035001800308037001300326050001300339072002500352082001800377049000900395100002000404245003300424260006100457300003100518336002100549337002300570338003200593490002700625520101200652521005501664650001001719650001701729650003801746655002201784730005401806830002701860856010501887938002801992910001602020994001202036999001702048ocn842588937OCoLC20200709060307.0m        d        cr |nu080617e20080821quc    eo     000 0 eng    aAU@bengcAU@dOCLCOdCOOdOCLCQdN$T  a9781317488514qelectronic bk.  a1317488512qelectronic bk.  z9781844651573  z18446515760 aAU@b0000509614331 aAU@b000053015385  a(OCoLC)842588937  a924350b(N$T)  b00305701 4aBJ1470.5 7aSOCx0000002bisacsh04a303.37201222  aN$TA1 aRowlands, Mark.10aFameh[electronic resource].  aMontreal :bMcGill-Queen's University Press,cAug. 2008.  a1 online resource (128 p.)  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier1 aThe Art of Living Ser.8 aAnnotation.b"Mark Rowland s brings his philosophical expertise to bear on our concept of fame and explores the reasons behind its radical transformation. To understand this "new variant fame", Rowlands argues, we must engage in an extensive philosophical excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in fourth-century BC Athens. Rowlands reveals that our present day notion of fame and the extremes that accompany it are symptoms of a significant cultural change: the decline of Enlightenment ideas has seen individualism eclipse objectivism about value, so much so that what characterizes Western society today is its constitutional inability to distinguish quality from bullshit. This, argues Rowlands, is the predicament in which we find ourselves today and which explains how fame can now be unconnected with any discernible distinction: we have lost any grip on the idea that there might be objective standards of evaluation even for some of the most important choices we make."--BOOK JACKET.  aCollege AudiencebMcGill-Queen's University Press. 0aFame. 0aCelebrities. 7aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General2bisacsh 4aElectronic books.0 aEbrary Academic Complete Subscription Collection. 4aThe Art of Living Ser.403EBSCOhostuhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=924350  aEBSCOhostbEBSCn924350  acpp1723AUTO  a02bN$T  c55830d55830