Cultural Amnesia
Title | Cultural Amnesia PDF eBook |
Author | Clive James |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 924 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780393061161 |
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.
Cultural Amnesia
Title | Cultural Amnesia PDF eBook |
Author | Clive James |
Publisher | Picador |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781529077346 |
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.
Cultural Amnesia
Title | Cultural Amnesia PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Bertman |
Publisher | Praeger |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2000-02-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
"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.
Twilight Memories
Title | Twilight Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Huyssen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 113604230X |
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.
Cultural Amnesia
Title | Cultural Amnesia PDF eBook |
Author | Mattson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 68 |
Release | 2018-03-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780999872314 |
In three short, readable essays, Brian Mattson subjects Two Kingdoms Theology to searching theological and biblical critique.
Race and the Foundations of Knowledge
Title | Race and the Foundations of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph A. Young |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Discrimination in higher education |
ISBN | 0252072561 |
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.
K-Pop
Title | K-Pop PDF eBook |
Author | John Lie |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0520283120 |
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.