You might learn that if you want to learn any of those things in clojure understanding these concepts really help. The librarys of clojures are all build on these functional concepts. You will have a much harder time understanding the librarys if you think you can only look at how to call some api. All the business logic that I write in Clojure uses these concepts, there is a reason for this stuff.

Clojure is not python and not java, the fundamental concept is diffrent. If you allready understand these concepts just go to github and look at the librarys for logging, databases and other stuff. How to use a library you can learn looking at the documentation of the library, learning how to programm idiomatic clojure needs some training.