Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (Hardback)
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Short Description for Cultural Amnesia Containing more than 100 original essays organized by quotations, James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. 110 photographs.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 19 March 2007
- Format: Hardback 768 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Cultural Studies | Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600
- ISBN 13: 9780393061161 ISBN 10: 0393061167
- Sales rank: 154,564
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Full description for Cultural Amnesia
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.
