Cultural Amnesia

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780330462471

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Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Pdf

In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don’t recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). My heroes and heroines are here. An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is Clive James’s unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record – and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1529077346

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Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Pdf

Essayist and cultural critic Clive James at his brilliant best - a dizzyingly erudite tour of twentieth-century culture. Now reissued as part of the Picador Collection, celebrating 50 years of Picador books.A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James always wanted to write. Organized from A through to Z, and containing over one hundred essays, it's the ultimate guide to the twentieth century, illuminating 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, it's a book for our times - and, indeed, for all time.

Author : Stephen Bertman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028546781

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Cultural Amnesia by Stephen Bertman Pdf

"Applying the metaphor of Alzheimer's disease to our national state of mind, Bertman offers a chilling prognosis for our country's future unless radical steps for recovery are taken. ... [He] looks beyond the classroom to the larger social forces that conspire to alienate Americans from their past: a materialistic creed that celebrates transience and disposability, and an electronic faith that worships the present to the exclusion of all other dimensions of time."--Jacket.

Author : Andreas Huyssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136042300

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Twilight Memories by Andreas Huyssen Pdf

In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even more associated with memory than with future expectation. Drawing heavily on the dilemmas of contemporary Germany, Huyssen's discussion of cultural memory illustrates the nature of contemporary nationalism, the work of such artists and thinkers as Anselm Kiefer, Alexander Kluge, and Jean Baudrillard, and many others. The book includes illustrations from contemporary Germany.

Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520283121

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K-Pop by John Lie Pdf

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.

Author : Joseph A. Young,Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Discrimination in higher education
ISBN : 9780252072567

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Race and the Foundations of Knowledge by Joseph A. Young,Jana Evans Braziel Pdf

This anthology demonstrates the longstanding, multifarious, and major role that race has played in the formation of knowledge. The authors demonstrate how race theory intersects with other bodies of knowledge by examining discursive records such as travelogues, literature, and historiography; theoretical structures such as common sense, pseudoscientific racism, and Eurocentrism; social structures of class, advancement, and identity; and politico-economic structures of capitalism, colonialism, and law.

Author : Carl R. Trueman
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433556364

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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl R. Trueman Pdf

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends—and yet, no historical phenomenon is its own cause. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of self. In The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl Trueman carefully analyzes the roots and development of the sexual revolution as a symptom, rather than the cause, of the human search for identity. This timely exploration of the history of thought behind the sexual revolution teaches readers about the past, brings clarity to the present, and gives guidance for the future as Christians navigate the culture's ever-changing search for identity.

Author : Mattson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999872311

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Cultural Amnesia by Mattson Pdf

In three short, readable essays, Brian Mattson subjects Two Kingdoms Theology to searching theological and biblical critique.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199347704

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The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Pdf

An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.

Author : Minelle Mahtani
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774827751

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Mixed Race Amnesia by Minelle Mahtani Pdf

Racially mixed people in the global north are often portrayed as the embodiment of an optimistic, post-racial future. In Mixed Race Amnesia, Minelle Mahtani makes the case that this romanticized view of multiraciality governs both public perceptions and personal accounts of the mixed race experience. Drawing on a series of interviews, she explores how, in order to adopt the view that being mixed race is progressive, a strategic forgetting takes place – one that obliterates complex diasporic histories. She argues that a new anti-colonial approach to multiraciality is needed, one that emphasizes how colonialism shapes the experiences of mixed race people today.

Author : Andreas Huyssen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804745617

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Present Pasts by Andreas Huyssen Pdf

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas—Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.

Author : Paloma Aguilar Fernández
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1571817573

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Memory and Amnesia by Paloma Aguilar Fernández Pdf

Using a rich variety of sources, this book explores how the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War influenced the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco's death in 1975.

Author : Robert Boyers
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781982127183

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The Tyranny of Virtue by Robert Boyers Pdf

From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, a thought-provoking volume of nine essays that elegantly and fiercely addresses recent developments in American culture and argues for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition. Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a precise and nuanced insider’s look at shifts in American culture—most especially in the American academy—that so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, an anatomy of important and dangerous ideas, and a cri de coeur lamenting the erosion of standard liberal values, Boyers’s collection of essays is devoted to such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, diversity, and ableism that have turned academic life into a minefield. Why, Robert Boyers asks, are a great many liberals, people who should know better, invested in the drawing up of enemies lists and driven by the conviction that on critical issues no dispute may be tolerated? In stories, anecdotes, and character profiles, a public intellectual and longtime professor takes on those in his own progressive cohort who labor in the grip of a poisonous and illiberal fundamentalism. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines.

Author : Daniel Quinn
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553375404

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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Pdf

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. “A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny.”—The New York Times Book Review Teacher Seeks Pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime. So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. It is the story of a man who embarks on a highly provocative intellectual adventure with a gorilla—a journey of the mind and spirit that changes forever the way he sees the world and humankind’s place in it. In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanity’s origins and its relationship with nature, in search of an answer to this challenging question: How can we save the world from ourselves? Explore Daniel Quinn’s spiritual Ishmael trilogy: ISHMAEL • MY ISHMAEL • THE STORY OF B Praise for Ishmael “As suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year.”—The Austin Chronicle “Before we’re halfway through this slim book . . . we’re in [Daniel Quinn’s] grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. We want to change our lives.”—The Washington Post “Arthur Koestler, in an essay in which he wondered whether mankind would go the way of the dinosaur, formulated what he called the Dinosaur’s Prayer: ‘Lord, a little more time!’ Ishmael does its bit to answer that prayer and may just possibly have bought us all a little more time.”—Los Angeles Times

Author : G. N. Devy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9386689162

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After Amnesia by G. N. Devy Pdf