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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Side viii
... Aesthetic Individualism and the Ethics of Nostalgia Conclusion : Nostalgia and Global Culture : From Outer Space to Cyberspace 345 Notes 357 Index 391 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Nostalgia is not only a longing for a lost VIII CONTENTS.
... Aesthetic Individualism and the Ethics of Nostalgia Conclusion : Nostalgia and Global Culture : From Outer Space to Cyberspace 345 Notes 357 Index 391 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Nostalgia is not only a longing for a lost VIII CONTENTS.
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... aesthetic failure . I too had long held a prejudice against nostalgia . I remember when I had just emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1981 , strangers often asked , “ Do you miss it ? ” I never quite knew how to ...
... aesthetic failure . I too had long held a prejudice against nostalgia . I remember when I had just emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1981 , strangers often asked , “ Do you miss it ? ” I never quite knew how to ...
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... aesthetic , rather than market , liberalism . Unlike the Western pragmatic trans- actional relationship of the idea ... aesthetics of estrangement and longing . We will examine imagined homelands of Russian - American artists — Vladimir ...
... aesthetic , rather than market , liberalism . Unlike the Western pragmatic trans- actional relationship of the idea ... aesthetics of estrangement and longing . We will examine imagined homelands of Russian - American artists — Vladimir ...
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... aesthetic sense that did not objectify the past but rather heightened one's sensitivity to the dilemmas of life and moral freedom.29 For Kant, philosophy was seen as a nostalgia for a better world. Nostalgia is what humans share, not ...
... aesthetic sense that did not objectify the past but rather heightened one's sensitivity to the dilemmas of life and moral freedom.29 For Kant, philosophy was seen as a nostalgia for a better world. Nostalgia is what humans share, not ...
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... the singu- larity of the encounter . The modern city is the poet's imperfect home . " Baudelaire's definition of poetic beauty is politically and aesthetically incorrect THE ANGEL OF HISTORY : NOSTALGIA AND MODERNITY 2 I.
... the singu- larity of the encounter . The modern city is the poet's imperfect home . " Baudelaire's definition of poetic beauty is politically and aesthetically incorrect THE ANGEL OF HISTORY : NOSTALGIA AND MODERNITY 2 I.
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