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The history of fame is about nothing less than the history of Western civilization. It is also about the history of the individual, and therefore it is about the history of human psychology too. I make these grandiose claims not simply to sensationalize the material contained in this chapter but also in an attempt to step backwards and rearrange one’s perspective from a time when individual human beings did not even have names.
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Giles, D. (2000). ‘Mad for noblesse’: fame through history. In: Illusions of Immortality. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09650-0_2
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