Cultural Amnesia

书名：Cultural AmnesiaNecessaryMemoriesfromHistoryandtheArts
作者：CliveJames
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ISBN：9780393061161
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
出版时间：2007-3-17
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：912
豆瓣评分： 8.9

书籍简介：

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.

作者简介：

一个英国批评家对110个文化历史人物做的笔记式介绍——据说这位作者经常跑题，但文笔生动。amazon上有人评述，说就像听一个博学的朋友聊天。

书友短评：

@ 跳草 It is always useful to be reminded that if an ideology contains a prejudice, the prejudice is likely to have been there first, like the splinter in the fester, if not the speck of grit in the pearl.中文版删减了十来位，基于文化观点最终落实到政治光谱上。 @ Polyommatinae It is always useful to be reminded that if an ideology contains a prejudice, the prejudice is likely to have been there first, like the splinter in the fester, if not the speck of grit in the pearl.中文版删减了十来位，基于文化观点最终落实到政治光谱上。 @ 跳草 虽然很厚，但是作者关心的话题很少。并不是传记，而是借由这些人来阐述作者的观点的。 @ Polyommatinae 挑了自己比较熟悉+感兴趣的部分看，每篇最后一段的总结十分有力度。 @ windx 非常有意思的一本书

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