Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

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A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James has always wanted to write. Click to see more books by Clive James 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. 'Clive James is one of the most ingeniously stimulating literary critics now writing in English. From Louis Armstrong to Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, this is an illuminating and fascinating work of remarkable erudition.   From Louis Armstrong to Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, it's a book for our times - and, indeed, for all time. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers. Unless labeled "New", all of our books are second-hand. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century.