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Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, this book illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. In discussing, among others, Louis Armstrong, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, James writes, "If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive." This is the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost.--From publisher description.
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Modern History, Modern Civilization, History, Modern, Civilization, Modern, Biography, Social aspects, Intellectual life, Artists, Humanism, Philosophers, Musicians, Western Civilization, Memory, Intellectuals, History, Literature, history and criticism, Twentieth century, New York Times reviewed, Civilization, western, Artists, biography, Musicians, biography, Philosophers, biography, Humanism, 20th centuryTimes
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Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
2012, Pan Macmillan
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
2008, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
2008, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
March 19, 2007, W. W. Norton, W.W. Norton & Co.
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Cultural amnesia: notes in the margin of my time
2007, Picador, W.W. Norton & Company. Inc.
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CULTURAL AMNESIA: NOTES IN THE MARGIN OF MY TIME.
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