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Cultural amnesia : notes in the margin of my time

James, Clive, 1939-20192022
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A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers. 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.
Main title:
Cultural amnesia : notes in the margin of my time / Clive James.
Author:
James, Clive, 1939-2019, author
Work:
Cultural Amnesia : Notes in the Margin of My Time
Edition:
Corrected and updated edition.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.©2012
Collation:
xxxii, 875 pages : portraits ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781529077346 (pbk)9781529077346 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A824.3824.3
Language:
English
Subject:
Civilization, Modern -- 20th centuryIntellectuals -- BiographyArtists -- BiographyMusicians -- BiographyPhilosophers -- BiographyIntellectual life -- History -- 20th centuryHumanism -- History -- 20th centuryMemory -- Social aspectsAustralian essays -- 21st centuryEssays
BRN:
782184
Bookmark link:
https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=782184
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