Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

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by James, Clive | Literature & literary studies Published 28/04/2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of the Picador Collection series Paperback | 912 pages Hardcover Book Condition: Fine Jacket Condition: Fine If the dipper occasionally brings up exasperation, it brings up astonished delight far more often; and, best of all, exasperated astonished delight' - Boston Globe Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece--the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. His writing appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.   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. Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James