Author: Clive James
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393061167
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393061167
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Get Cultural Amnesia literature books for free.
/strong>Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," the renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, Cultural Amnesia 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 hu Check Cultural Amnesia our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.
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Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, James writes, "If the hu
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