The Future Of NostalgiaBasic Books, 21. mar. 2001 - 404 sider Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a deterrent to nostalgia. In her new book, Svetlana Boym develops a comprehensive approach to this elusive ailment. Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, from love letters on Kafka's grave to conversations with Hitler's impersonator, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes. |
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Side xvi
... critical thinking for emotional bonding . The danger of nostalgia is that it tends to confuse the actual home and the imaginary one . In extreme cases it can create a phantom homeland , for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill ...
... critical thinking for emotional bonding . The danger of nostalgia is that it tends to confuse the actual home and the imaginary one . In extreme cases it can create a phantom homeland , for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill ...
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... critical reflection . The self - conscious preservation of countermemory granted an intellectual a special role in the society . The practition- ers of countermemory were the first to unravel the history of Gulag and Stalinist purges ...
... critical reflection . The self - conscious preservation of countermemory granted an intellectual a special role in the society . The practition- ers of countermemory were the first to unravel the history of Gulag and Stalinist purges ...
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... critical at the same time , reminding the city dwellers of Berlin's tragic fate and premodern beauty . Hoffmann - Axthelm does not advocate the destruction of the Palace of the Re- public in order to preserve the topos of the Schloss ...
... critical at the same time , reminding the city dwellers of Berlin's tragic fate and premodern beauty . Hoffmann - Axthelm does not advocate the destruction of the Palace of the Re- public in order to preserve the topos of the Schloss ...
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PART 2 | 73 |
Moscow the Russian Rome | 91 |
Joseph Brodskys Room and a Half | 285 |
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