Clive James / Cultural Amnesia Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Description: Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Author: Clive James Title: Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Publication: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007 Description: Hardcover. Clive James critics author's, poets, politicians, and actors on their affect on culture. New hardcover in DJ. Black and white photos. Coda. Index. 912 pp. New / New. 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. Seller ID: 2017 Subject: Film and Television , Literature The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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