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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

作者 Clive James
出版社 W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC.
商品描述 Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts:Fortyyearsinthemaking,anewculturalcanonthatcelebratestruthoverhypocrisy,literatureovertotalitari

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內容簡介 Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism.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 humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.” 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.

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書名 / Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
作者 / Clive James
簡介 / Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts:Fortyyearsinthemaking,anewculturalcanonthatcelebratestruthoverhypocrisy,literatureovertotalitari
出版社 / W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC.
ISBN13 / 9780393061161
ISBN10 / 0393061167
EAN / 9780393061161
誠品26碼 / 2681590445006
頁數 / 912
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裝訂 / H:精裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 16.5X24.1X4.6CM
級別 / N:無

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