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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... Sartre Erik Satie Arthur Schnitzler Sophie Scholl Wolf Jobst Siedler Manès Sperber T Tacitus Margaret Thatcher Henning von Tresckow Leon Trotsky Karl Tschuppik U Dubravka Ugresic Miguel de Unamuno Pedro Henriquez Ureña V Paul Valéry ...
... Sartre Erik Satie Arthur Schnitzler Sophie Scholl Wolf Jobst Siedler Manès Sperber T Tacitus Margaret Thatcher Henning von Tresckow Leon Trotsky Karl Tschuppik U Dubravka Ugresic Miguel de Unamuno Pedro Henriquez Ureña V Paul Valéry ...
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... Sartre is keen to avoid Solzhenitsyn. Kafka tells Puccini that he would have approached him at the Brescia flying display in 1909, but he was too shy. Nabokov tells Pavlova that he never forgot the time he danced the waltz with her ...
... Sartre is keen to avoid Solzhenitsyn. Kafka tells Puccini that he would have approached him at the Brescia flying display in 1909, but he was too shy. Nabokov tells Pavlova that he never forgot the time he danced the waltz with her ...
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... Sartre could be wrong all the time, although he tried hard. And there were heroes who were not always right: Thomas Mann, in his youth, was terrifically wrong about militarized nationalism, and part of his later anguish was that he had ...
... Sartre could be wrong all the time, although he tried hard. And there were heroes who were not always right: Thomas Mann, in his youth, was terrifically wrong about militarized nationalism, and part of his later anguish was that he had ...
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