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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... exile, Britain and America were the most prominent beneficiaries, but we should not forget smaller countries like my ... exiled professor Karl Popper was able to develop the principles contained in The Open Society and Its Enemies ...
... exile, Britain and America were the most prominent beneficiaries, but we should not forget smaller countries like my ... exiled professor Karl Popper was able to develop the principles contained in The Open Society and Its Enemies ...
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... exiled Stravinsky no doubt enjoyed his personal freedom, Prokofiev and Shostakovich gained from being thought important by the power that paid them, and that this putatively fruitful relationship between creativity and a centralized ...
... exiled Stravinsky no doubt enjoyed his personal freedom, Prokofiev and Shostakovich gained from being thought important by the power that paid them, and that this putatively fruitful relationship between creativity and a centralized ...
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... exile far into her old age (she died in America in 1993). In the book she tells the story of the Writers' Library, the bookshop in Moscow where the books of the old intelligentsia were traded for food after the Revolution. If there had ...
... exile far into her old age (she died in America in 1993). In the book she tells the story of the Writers' Library, the bookshop in Moscow where the books of the old intelligentsia were traded for food after the Revolution. If there had ...
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