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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... the actual achievement of science, but the language of science, which, clumsily imitated by the proponents of Cultural Studies, has helped to make real culture unapproachable for exactly those students who might otherwise have been.
... the actual achievement of science, but the language of science, which, clumsily imitated by the proponents of Cultural Studies, has helped to make real culture unapproachable for exactly those students who might otherwise have been.
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... cultural diversions as a mere mechanism of renewal and repose. But the adventurous jobs are becoming more predictable all the time, even at the level of celebrity and conspicuous ... culture, he didn't mean that it would be a world culture.
... cultural diversions as a mere mechanism of renewal and repose. But the adventurous jobs are becoming more predictable all the time, even at the level of celebrity and conspicuous ... culture, he didn't mean that it would be a world culture.
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Clive James. he didn't mean that it would be a world culture if everyone could live in Switzerland. THE IDEOLOGISTS THOUGHT they understood history. They thought history had a shape, a predictable outcome, a direction that could be ...
Clive James. he didn't mean that it would be a world culture if everyone could live in Switzerland. THE IDEOLOGISTS THOUGHT they understood history. They thought history had a shape, a predictable outcome, a direction that could be ...
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... culture was immeasurably accelerated. It hardly needs adding that the enforced new diaspora was an immense factor in ... culture in the twentieth century which did not deal constantly with just how close culture came to being eradicated ...
... culture was immeasurably accelerated. It hardly needs adding that the enforced new diaspora was an immense factor in ... culture in the twentieth century which did not deal constantly with just how close culture came to being eradicated ...
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... cultural success can be political naivety. The lesson still applies today, when so many members of the international intelligentsia—which, broadly interpreted, means us— continue to believe that culture can automatically hold ...
... cultural success can be political naivety. The lesson still applies today, when so many members of the international intelligentsia—which, broadly interpreted, means us— continue to believe that culture can automatically hold ...
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