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List of Illustrations 00 Introduction 00 A Note on the Text 00 Acknowledgements 00 Overture: Vienna 00 A Anna Akhmatova 000 Peter Altenberg 000 Louis Armstrong 000 Raymond Aron 000 B Walter Benjamin 000 Marc Bloch 000 Jorge Luis Borges 000 Robert Brasillach 000 Sir Thomas Browne 00 C Albert Camus 000 Dick Cavett 000 viii cultural amnesia Paul Celan 000 Chamfort 000 Coco Chanel 000 Charles Chaplin 000 Nirad C. Chaudhuri 000 G. K. Chesterton 000 Jean Cocteau 000 Gianfranco Contini 000 Benedetto Croce 000 Tony Curtis 000 Ernst Robert Curtius 000 D Miles Davis 000 Sergei Diaghilev 000 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle 000 E Alfred Einstein 000 Duke Ellington 000 F Federico Fellini 000 W. C. Fields 000 F. Scott Fitzgerald 000 Gustave Flaubert 000 Sigmund Freud 000 Egon Friedell 000 Fran¿ois Furet 000 G Charles de Gaulle 000 Edward Gibbon 000 Terry Gilliam 000 Josef Goebbels 000 Witold Gombrowicz 000 H William Hazlitt 000 Hegel 000 Heinrich Heine 000 Adolf Hitler 000 Ricarda Huch 000 J Ernst J¿nger 000 K Franz Kafka 000 John Keats 000 Leszek Kolakowski 000 Alexandra Kollontai 000 Heda Margolius Kovaly 000 Karl Kraus 000 L Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 000 M Norman Mailer 000 Nadezhda Mandelstam 000 Golo Mann 000 Heinrich Mann 000 Michael Mann 000 Thomas Mann 000 p e t e r a l t e n b e r g ix Mao Zedong 000 Chris Marker 000 John McCloy 000 Zinka Milanov 000 Czeslaw Milosz 000 Eugenio Montale 000 Montesquieu 000 Alan Moorehead 000 Paul Muratov 000 N Lewis Namier 000 O Grigory Ordzhonokidze 000 P Octavio Paz 000 Alfred Polgar 000 Beatrix Potter 000 Jean Pr¿vost 000 Marcel Proust 000 Q Edgar Quinet 000 R Marcel Reich-Ranicki 000 Jean-Fran¿ois Revel 000 Richard Rhodes 000 Rainer Maria Rilke 000 Virginio Rognoni 000 x cultural amnesia S Ernesto Sabato 000 Edward Said 000 Sainte-Beuve 000 Jos¿ Saramago 000 Jean-Paul Sartre 000 Erik Satie 000 Arthur Schnitzler 000 Sophie Scholl 000 Wolf Jobst Siedler 000 Man¿s Sperber 000 T Tacitus 000 Margaret Thatcher 000 Henning von Tresckow 000 Leon Trotsky 000 Karl Tschuppik 000 U Dubravka Ugresic 000 Miguel de Unamuno 000 Pedro Henriquez Ure¿a 000 V Paul Val¿ry 000 Mario Vargas Llosa 000 W Evelyn Waugh 000 Ludwig Wittgenstein 000 p e t e r a l t e n b e r g xi Y Isoroku Yamamoto 000 Z Aleksandr Zinoviev 000 Carl Zuckmayer 000 Stefan Zweig 000 Conclusion: Kun-Han-Su 000 Coda: Eckstein adn the Egyptian Kinghopper 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Civilization, Western.
Intellectuals -- Biography.
Artists -- Biography.
Musicians -- Biography.
Philosophers -- Biography.
Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century.
Humanism -- History -- 20th century.
Memory -- Social aspects.