Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it." —Jacob Weisberg, Slate This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. 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. |
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... Furet G Charles de Gaulle Edward Gibbon Terry Gilliam Josef Goebbels Witold Gombrowicz H William Hazlitt Hegel Heinrich Heine Adolf Hitler Ricarda Huch J Ernst Jünger K Franz Kafka John Keats Leszek Kolakowski Alexandra.
... Furet G Charles de Gaulle Edward Gibbon Terry Gilliam Josef Goebbels Witold Gombrowicz H William Hazlitt Hegel Heinrich Heine Adolf Hitler Ricarda Huch J Ernst Jünger K Franz Kafka John Keats Leszek Kolakowski Alexandra.
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... Hitler told quite good jokes. If there was no field of creativity that was incorruptibly pure, where did that leave humanism? GRADUALLY I REALIZED that I had been looking in the wrong place. As a journalist and critic, a premature post ...
... Hitler told quite good jokes. If there was no field of creativity that was incorruptibly pure, where did that leave humanism? GRADUALLY I REALIZED that I had been looking in the wrong place. As a journalist and critic, a premature post ...
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... Hitler both thought that they could see the whole picture, and look what happened. WHATEVER WE SAY, it is bound to be dependent on what has been said before. In this book can be heard the merest outside edge of an enormous conversation ...
... Hitler both thought that they could see the whole picture, and look what happened. WHATEVER WE SAY, it is bound to be dependent on what has been said before. In this book can be heard the merest outside edge of an enormous conversation ...
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... Hitler spends very little time imagining he is Robert Lowell. Anna Akhmatova at her most beautiful, a catwalk model ... Hitler, Stalin, Mao. But although Hitler and Stalin both talked like maniacs from the start, Mao was capable of ...
... Hitler spends very little time imagining he is Robert Lowell. Anna Akhmatova at her most beautiful, a catwalk model ... Hitler, Stalin, Mao. But although Hitler and Stalin both talked like maniacs from the start, Mao was capable of ...
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... Hitler's campaign on the eastern front and Richard Burton's pageboy hairstyle in Where Eagles Dare, but such an exploration is fundamental to its plan, which is to follow the paths that lead on from the citations, and try to go on ...
... Hitler's campaign on the eastern front and Richard Burton's pageboy hairstyle in Where Eagles Dare, but such an exploration is fundamental to its plan, which is to follow the paths that lead on from the citations, and try to go on ...
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