Cultural Amnesia Author:Clive James 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 one hundred essays, its 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 ... more »Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, its a book for our timesand, indeed, for all time.« less