Cultural Amnesia Necessary Memories From History And The Arts

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393285420

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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James Pdf

"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it." —Jacob Weisberg, Slate This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. 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.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0393061167

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Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Pdf

Containing more than 100 original essays organized by quotations, James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. 110 photographs.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Picador
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781743030820

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Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Pdf

'A gigantic book on a gigantic theme' - Sunday Times 'Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilization' - J. M. Coetzee With three new essays and an introduction to the extras from the author, the special edition eBook adds new depth to an already absorbing book. A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James has always wanted to write. Organized from A through to Z, and containing over 100 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. 'Clive James is one of the most ingeniously stimulating literary critics now writing in English. Cultural Amnesia, with its encyclopedic length and organization and the intense jostle of its ideas, is to be dipped into over weeks and months. If the dipper occasionally brings up exasperation, it brings up astonished delight far more often; and, best of all, exasperated astonished delight' - Boston Globe

Author : Jr. John G. Rodwan
Publisher : Mongrel Empire Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780980168488

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Fighters & Writers by Jr. John G. Rodwan Pdf

A spirited and far-ranging meditation on boxing that's also a thoughtful inquiry into the relationship between the writer's craft and the fighter's. --Carlo Rotella, author of Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

Author : Stephen Bertman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Liedeke Plate,Anneke Smelik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415811408

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Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture by Liedeke Plate,Anneke Smelik Pdf

This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.

Author : James O. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444332711

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Cultural Appropriation and the Arts by James O. Young Pdf

Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world (the Parthenon Marbles remain in London; white musicians from Bix Beiderbeck to Eric Clapton have appropriated musical styles from African-American culture) Young offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise Tackles head on the thorny issues arising from the clash and integration of cultures and their artifacts Questions considered include: “Can cultural appropriation result in the production of aesthetically successful works of art?” and “Is cultural appropriation in the arts morally objectionable?” Part of the highly regarded New Directions in Aesthetics series

Author : Maria Theresia Starzmann,John R. Roby
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813055688

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Excavating Memory by Maria Theresia Starzmann,John R. Roby Pdf

In this compelling study, Maria Theresia Starzmann and John Roby bring together an international cast of experts who move beyond the traditional framework of the "constructed past" to look at not only how the past is remembered but also who remembers it. They convincingly argue that memory is a complex process, shaped by remembering and forgetting, inscription and erasure, presence and absence. Collective memory influences which stories are told over others, ultimately shaping narratives about identity, family, and culture. This interdisciplinary volume--melding anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and archival studies--explores such diverse arenas as archaeological objects, human remains, colonial landscapes, public protests, national memorials, art installations, testimonies, and even digital space as places of memory. Examining important sites of memory, including the Victory Memorial to Soviet Army, Blair Mountain, Spanish penitentiaries, African shrines, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the contributors highlight the myriad ways communities reinforce or reinterpret their pasts.

Author : Iwona Irwin-Zarecka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351519250

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Frames of Remembrance by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka Pdf

What is the symbolic impact of the Vietnam War Memorial? How does television change our engagement with the past? Can the efforts to wipe out Communist legacies succeed? Should victims of the Holocaust be celebrated as heroes or as martyrs? These questions have a great deal in common, yet they are typically asked separately by people working in distinct research areas in different disciplines. Frames of Remembrance shares ideas and concerns across such divides.

Author : Thomas J. Anastasio,Kristen Ann Ehrenberger,Patrick Watson,Wenyi Zhang
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262300919

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Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation by Thomas J. Anastasio,Kristen Ann Ehrenberger,Patrick Watson,Wenyi Zhang Pdf

An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia. We form individual memories by a process known as consolidation: the conversion of immediate and fleeting bits of information into a stable and accessible representation of facts and events. These memories provide a version of the past that helps us navigate the present and is critical to individual identity. In this book, Thomas Anastasio, Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Patrick Watson, and Wenyi Zhang propose that social groups form collective memories by analogous processes. Using facts and insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and history, they describe a single process of consolidation with analogous—not merely comparable—manifestations on any level, whether brain, family, or society. They propose a three-in-one model of memory consolidation, composed of a buffer, a relator, and a generalizer, all within the consolidating entity, that can explain memory consolidation phenomena on individual and collective levels. When consolidation is disrupted by traumatic injury to a brain structure known as the hippocampus, memories in the process of being consolidated are lost. In individuals, this is known as retrograde amnesia. The authors hypothesize a "social hippocampus" and argue that disruption at the collective level can result in collective retrograde amnesia. They offer the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as an example of trauma to the social hippocampus and present evidence for the loss of recent collective memory in mainland Chinese populations that experienced the Cultural Revolution.

Author : Nicolas Pethes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781527535619

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Cultural Memory Studies by Nicolas Pethes Pdf

This volume provides an overview of theories of cultural memory that are intensively discussed in cultural studies and humanities disciplines such as history, sociology, literary studies, art history, and media studies. Cultural memory encompasses all rituals, institutions and practices through which communities establish their identity and common origin, which are challenged by the digital turn today. The book presents, on the one hand, basic arguments by the most important memory theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and, on the other, exemplary descriptions of the most significant forms of cultural memory.

Author : Alexander Joffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350132894

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Operation Crusader and the Desert War in British History and Memory by Alexander Joffe Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2021 Society for Army Historical Research's Templer Medal Operation Crusader, launched in November 1941, was the third and final British attempt to relieve the siege of Tobruk and break the German and Italian forces in North Africa. After tough initial fighting, the British made important gains, only to be countered by a stunning breakthrough overseen personally by Lt. General Erwin Rommel. As the British situation teetered, the commander of the 8th Army, Lt. General Alan Cunningham, was relieved of duty by his superior, General Claude Auchinleck. This decision changed the direction of the battle and perhaps the war itself. Why and how Cunningham was relieved has been the subject of commentary and speculation since it occurred. Using newly discovered evidence, Alexander Joffe rethinks the events that brought about the sudden relief of the operation's commanding officer, including insubordination. The book then discusses how narratives regarding the operation were created, were incorporated into British and Commonwealth official and unofficial historical writing about the war, and contributed to British historical memory. Based on a decade of archival work, the book presents a new and detailed analysis of a consequential battle and, importantly, of how its history was written and received in the context of post-war Britain.

Author : Sigurd Bergmann,Forrest Clingerman
Publisher : Brill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004355359

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Arts, Religion, and the Environment by Sigurd Bergmann,Forrest Clingerman Pdf

With-In : Towards an Aesth/Ethics of Prepositions / Sigurd Bergmann -- Wonder and Ernst Haeckel's Aesthetics of Nature / Whitney Bauman -- The Black Wood : Relations, Empathy and a Feeling of Oneness in Caledonian Pine Forests / Reiko Goto and Tim Collins

Author : Andreas Huyssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Book News Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781605850870

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