The Future of NostalgiaBasic Books, 5. aug. 2008 - 352 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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... regionalism—local internationalism.We will travel to three European capitals of the present, past and future—Moscow, St. Petersburg and Berlin—examining a dual archeology of the concrete urban space and Introduction.
... regionalism—local internationalism.We will travel to three European capitals of the present, past and future—Moscow, St. Petersburg and Berlin—examining a dual archeology of the concrete urban space and Introduction.
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... Moscow rebuilt from scratch to the abandoned modern Palace of the Republic in Berlin; from the largest monument to Stalin in Prague supplanted by a disco and a modern sculpture ofa metronome to the park of restored totalitarian mon ...
... Moscow rebuilt from scratch to the abandoned modern Palace of the Republic in Berlin; from the largest monument to Stalin in Prague supplanted by a disco and a modern sculpture ofa metronome to the park of restored totalitarian mon ...
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... of the Napoleonic Army from Moscow re- vealed that many of them had brain inflammation characteristic of nostalgia. While Europeans (with the exception of the British) reported frequent From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics.
... of the Napoleonic Army from Moscow re- vealed that many of them had brain inflammation characteristic of nostalgia. While Europeans (with the exception of the British) reported frequent From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics.
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... Moscow as his romance with Asja. Instead of personal happiness and intellectual belonging, Benjamin gained a paradoxical insight into Soviet life with uncommon flashes of lucidity. Benjamin surprised his leftist friends for whom Moscow ...
... Moscow as his romance with Asja. Instead of personal happiness and intellectual belonging, Benjamin gained a paradoxical insight into Soviet life with uncommon flashes of lucidity. Benjamin surprised his leftist friends for whom Moscow ...
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