The Future Of NostalgiaBasic Books, 21. mar. 2001 - 432 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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... tradition and revolution incorporate each other and rely on their opposition . Preoccupa- tion with tradition and interpretation of tradition as an age - old ritual is a dis- tinctly modern phenomenon , born out of anxiety about the ...
... tradition and revolution incorporate each other and rely on their opposition . Preoccupa- tion with tradition and interpretation of tradition as an age - old ritual is a dis- tinctly modern phenomenon , born out of anxiety about the ...
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... traditional values , the more selectively the past is presented . The novelty of invented tradition is " no less novel for being able to dress up easily as antiquity . " 992 Invented tradition does not mean a creation ex nihilo or a ...
... traditional values , the more selectively the past is presented . The novelty of invented tradition is " no less novel for being able to dress up easily as antiquity . " 992 Invented tradition does not mean a creation ex nihilo or a ...
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... tradition , buried in the Soviet era . In this ver- sion of the tradition , St. Petersburg was aspiring to become a new Novgorod , the Northern Russian republic whose independence was suppressed by Muscovy in the fifteenth century , or ...
... tradition , buried in the Soviet era . In this ver- sion of the tradition , St. Petersburg was aspiring to become a new Novgorod , the Northern Russian republic whose independence was suppressed by Muscovy in the fifteenth century , or ...
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Return to Origins | 41 |
PART 2 | 73 |
Moscow the Russian Rome | 83 |
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