Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

$19.95

SKU: 9780393333541
Author: James, Clive
Publication Date: 09/17/2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book
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Description

Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, 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.”