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Cultural Amnesia

Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

By Clive James

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| Hardcover | 9780393061161

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Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism.

Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," the renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. ContaiContinue

Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism.

Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," the renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, Cultural Amnesia illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. In discussing, among others, Louis Armstrong, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, James writes, "If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive." Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost. 110 photographs.

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  • Clever Clive will make you smart

    To describe Clive James as a distinguished former TV critic of The Observer is rather like saying Jefferson was a Virginian landowner or Socrates a clever bloke with a penchant for chatting with bright young men. Behind the chortling, sardonic demean ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • For the love of knowledge

    Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James Picador £14.99 Clive James, it is hardly necessary to remind ourselves, is often denigrated for being a know-it-all, a clever-clogs, a smarty-pants. It is indeed true that he is not shy ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 768 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393061167
  • ISBN-13: 9780393061161
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton
  • Pub date: Mar 19, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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