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050	0	0	_aCB245 _b.J338 2007
082	0	0	_a909.0982 JAM
100	1		_aJames, Clive, 1939-
245	1	0	_aCultural amnesia _b: necessary memories from history and the arts _c/ Clive James
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: W.W. Norton & Co. _c, c2007.
300			_axxxii, 876 p. _b: ports. _c; 25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aOn one hand, this work by British cultural and literary critic James can be seen as a simply an encyclopedic survey of figures important to the philosophy, history, politics, and arts of the 20th century (together with a small handful of non-20th century figures, such as the Roman historian Tacitus). It offers 116 separate profiles in which James offers his thoughts on such disparate individuals as Louis Armstrong, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Dick Cavett, Charlie Chaplin, Miles Davis, Alfred Einsteni, W. C. Fields, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Edward Gibbon, Terry Gilliam, Adolf Hitler, Norman Mailer, Thomas Mann, Mao Zedong, Octavio Paz, Beatrix Potter, Rainier Maria Rilke, Edward Said, Jean-Paul Sartre, Margaret Thatcher, Leon Trotsky, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Despite this seeming eclecticism, James has a unitary purpose, which is to defend the values of reason and liberal democracy against "ideologists" and authoritarianism.
650		0	_aCivilization, Western
650		0	_aIntellectuals _x--Biography
650		4	_aArtists _v--Biography
650			_aMusicians _v--Biography
650		0	_aPhilosophers _x--Biography
650		0	_aIntellectual life _x--History _z--20th century
650		0	_aHumanism
650		0	_aMemory _x--Social aspects
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