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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... probably towards the end of my life. By the time that terminus was in clear sight, however, I had begun to live with the possibility that there could be no scheme. There could only be a linear cluster of nodal points, working the way ...
... probably towards the end of my life. By the time that terminus was in clear sight, however, I had begun to live with the possibility that there could be no scheme. There could only be a linear cluster of nodal points, working the way ...
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... probably never learn, because it is getting late. The student who flicks through these pages in the bookshop will see many strange names, and perhaps be impressed. But what impresses me is all the names that are missing. I would never ...
... probably never learn, because it is getting late. The student who flicks through these pages in the bookshop will see many strange names, and perhaps be impressed. But what impresses me is all the names that are missing. I would never ...
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... probably the best first book to read in order to get the atmosphere would be Stefan Zweig's Die Welt von Gestern, which has been translated into English as The World of Yesterday. But there is lot of atmosphere to get, and with Zweig's ...
... probably the best first book to read in order to get the atmosphere would be Stefan Zweig's Die Welt von Gestern, which has been translated into English as The World of Yesterday. But there is lot of atmosphere to get, and with Zweig's ...
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... probably never will be, because his prose has the compression and precision of the finest poetry. But both men can still be appreciated for what they represent, and their names will crop up often in this book. What they had in common ...
... probably never will be, because his prose has the compression and precision of the finest poetry. But both men can still be appreciated for what they represent, and their names will crop up often in this book. What they had in common ...
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