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010 $a 2006036398
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020 $a0393061167 (hardcover)
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050 00 $aCB245$b.J338 2007
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100 1 $aJames, Clive,$d1939-2019.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50028956
245 10 $aCultural amnesia :$bnecessary memories from history and the arts /$cClive James.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axxxii, 876 pages :$bportraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"Nearly forty years in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the work of a lifetime. It is both an enlightening and a despairing work, written by one of the world's most renowned critics. Cultural Amnesia can be viewed simply as an extraordinary encyclopedia, containing over one hundred essays, all of them never before published, and arranged from A to Z around celebrities, intellectuals, tyrants, and writers, whose apothegms have fascinated James throughout his adult life. The reader can plunge in and read from beginning to end or simply decide to browse, and choose to read a piece at night before bed, or in the library, or alone in a cafe, which is where James always hoped these reflections might first be imbibed." "On a more profound level, Cultural Amnesia functions far beyond any mere reference guide. Indeed, every one of its many essays was written especially to fit with all the others in a vast verbal mosaic of the mental life of modern times, the area where politics and culture meet. James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally demolishes the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. And in quoting them he shows why they should be remembered and why cultural amnesia is a continuing danger."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCivilization, Western.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026485
650 0 $aIntellectuals$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123917
650 0 $aArtists$vBiography.
650 0 $aMusicians$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107681
650 0 $aPhilosophers$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109196
650 0 $aIntellectual life$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123916
650 0 $aHumanism$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062903
650 0 $aMemory$xSocial aspects.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036398.html
852 00 $bglx$hCB245$i.J338 2007
852 00 $bmil$hCB245$i.J338 2007
852 00 $bcomp$hCB245$i.J338 2007