 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Clive James |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Peter Behrens |
| Subject | essays |
| Published | 2007 (MacMillan UK) |
| Media type | hardcover |
| Pages | 876 |
Cultural Amnesia is a book of biographical essays byClive James, first published in 2007. The British title, published byMacMillan, isCultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, while the American title, published byW. W. Norton, isCultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts.[1][2] The coverillustration was adapted from a work by the GermanModernist designerPeter Behrens.
Reviewing the book forThe Atlantic,Christopher Hitchens argued that James tries "to glamorize the uninspiring - tries to show how tough and shapely were the common sense formulations of Raymond Aron for example, when set against the seductive, panoptic bloviations of Jean Paul Sartre" and that he "succeeds in it by trying to comb out all centrist clichés and by caring almost as much about language as it is possible to do." Additionally, Hitchens noted that "a unifying principle of the collection is its feminism" and that "one of James's charms as a critic is that he genuinely seems to enjoy praising people."[3]
The book is a series of essays on 106 people James has been fascinated by, most of them from the 20th century. The chapters are in alphabetical order of the subject's name, as follows:
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