https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Fault-is-Not-in-Our-Stars-but-in-Ourselves https://booksandideas.net/The-Fault-is-Not-in-Our-Stars-but-in-Ourselves 2015-01-08T06:30:00Z text/html en David A. Bell Society Enlightenment France History culture celebrity <p>Before we start to lament the triumph of celebrity culture over the most basic civic literacy, we might ask if things were truly better in the past. Antoine Lilti's brilliant book shows that modern celebrity culture had its origins in the age of revolutions, when selfhood and personal authenticity emerged as new notions.</p>