Fame (Record no. 1029)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01527 a2200241 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 1844651576 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250317100359.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250312042008GB eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781844651573 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 38.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | QD |
| Source | thema |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | HP |
| Source | bic |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | PHI000000 |
| Source | bisac |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | 306.4 |
| Source | bisac |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mark Rowlands |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fame |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20080820 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 160 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | 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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