| Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Contributor(s): James, Clive (Author) |
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ISBN: 039333354X ISBN-13: 9780393333541 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Containing more than 100 original essays organized by quotations, James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. 110 photographs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism |
| Dewey: 909.098 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (1.55 lbs) 912 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): James, Clive: - Born in Australia, Clive James lives in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Unreliable Memoirs; a volume of selected poems, Opal Sunset; the best-selling Cultural Amnesia; and the translator of The Divine Comedy by Dante. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. |