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 xiv
... century , nostalgia was considered to be a curable disease , akin to the common cold . Swiss doctors believed that opium , leeches and a journey to the Swiss Alps would take care of nostalgic symptoms . By the twenty - first century ...
... century , nostalgia was considered to be a curable disease , akin to the common cold . Swiss doctors believed that opium , leeches and a journey to the Swiss Alps would take care of nostalgic symptoms . By the twenty - first century ...
Side xvii
... century history . Off - modernism offered a critique of both the modern fascination with newness and no less modern reinvention of tradition . In the off - modern tradition , reflection and longing , estrangement and affection go ...
... century history . Off - modernism offered a critique of both the modern fascination with newness and no less modern reinvention of tradition . In the off - modern tradition , reflection and longing , estrangement and affection go ...
Side 6
... century , American doctors proudly declared that the young nation remained healthy and didn't succumb to the nostalgic vice until the American Civil War . If the Swiss doctor Hofer be- lieved that homesickness expressed love for freedom ...
... century , American doctors proudly declared that the young nation remained healthy and didn't succumb to the nostalgic vice until the American Civil War . If the Swiss doctor Hofer be- lieved that homesickness expressed love for freedom ...
Side 7
... century in one country only—Israel. (It is unclear whether this reflects a persistent yearning for the promised land or for the diasporic homelands left behind.) Everywhere else in the world nostalgia turned from a treatable sickness ...
... century in one country only—Israel. (It is unclear whether this reflects a persistent yearning for the promised land or for the diasporic homelands left behind.) Everywhere else in the world nostalgia turned from a treatable sickness ...
Side 8
... century took place roughly at the historical moment when the conception of time and history were undergoing radical change . The religious wars in Europe came to an end but the much prophesied end of the world and doomsday did not occur ...
... century took place roughly at the historical moment when the conception of time and history were undergoing radical change . The religious wars in Europe came to an end but the much prophesied end of the world and doomsday did not occur ...
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