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The author gives an outline of the actual results in the theory of the Clarke subdifferential of real-valued locally Lipschitz functions on Banach spaces. In detail, this outline contains 4 sections. In the first section, the author shows the important continuity properties of the Clarke subdifferential mapping and he points out the linkage between differentiability properties of \(f\) and properties of \(\partial f\) to be single-valued. Section 2 contains results regarding the Clarke subderivative \(f^0\), especially regarding the representation of \(f^0\) by generalized limits of classical derivatives. On the base of these results the author deduces assertions in the sense of Rademacher, Christensen and Preiss. In section 3 conditions are determined which imply the minimality of the Clarke subdifferential mapping. The proofs are closely connected with the characterizations of cuscos (i.e., upper semicontinuous compact-convex-valued mappings) on Banach spaces. Finally, in the last section the presented theory is applied to the study of differentiability properties of distance functions in specific spaces. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00033].