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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Clive James. To Aung San Suu Kyi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ingrid Betancourt and to the memory of Sophie Scholl INTRODUCTION IN THE FORTY years it took me to write.
Clive James. To Aung San Suu Kyi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ingrid Betancourt and to the memory of Sophie Scholl INTRODUCTION IN THE FORTY years it took me to write.
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... write had its origins in the books I was reading. Several times, in my early days, I had to sell my best books to buy food, so I never underlined anything. When conditions improved I became less fastidious. Not long after I began ...
... write had its origins in the books I was reading. Several times, in my early days, I had to sell my best books to buy food, so I never underlined anything. When conditions improved I became less fastidious. Not long after I began ...
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... write as if nobody would ever read the results except a faculty supervisor who owed his post to the same exemption. In 1938, the flight from the Anschluβ—and if only all of them had fled in time—was not the first case of a Jewish ...
... write as if nobody would ever read the results except a faculty supervisor who owed his post to the same exemption. In 1938, the flight from the Anschluβ—and if only all of them had fled in time—was not the first case of a Jewish ...
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... writer and intellectual Nina Berberova, left the Soviet Union in 1921, the very year that Gumilev was shot and ... write a poem, fall in love, and, above all, speak freely. It was a literary café. All too soon, there were no such ...
... writer and intellectual Nina Berberova, left the Soviet Union in 1921, the very year that Gumilev was shot and ... write a poem, fall in love, and, above all, speak freely. It was a literary café. All too soon, there were no such ...
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... , but when he wrote at all, he could write like that: a world view in two sentences. Sometimes he could do it in four words. One of Altenberg's many young loves had tearfully protested that his interest in her was based only (nur)
... , but when he wrote at all, he could write like that: a world view in two sentences. Sometimes he could do it in four words. One of Altenberg's many young loves had tearfully protested that his interest in her was based only (nur)
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