Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
- ISBN-10
- 0393061167
- ISBN-13
- 9780393061161
- Series
- Cultural Amnesia
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 876
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Clive James
Description
More than one hundred essays organized by quotations from A-Z discuss some of the great thinkers, artists, humanists, and philosophers of the twentieth century.
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- 2008-09-17
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- 2000
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- Greenwood Publishing Group
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