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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... contemporary Russian saying claims that the past has become much more unpredictable than the future . Nostalgia depends on this strange unpredictability . In fact nostalgics from all over the world would find it difficult to say what ...
... contemporary Russian saying claims that the past has become much more unpredictable than the future . Nostalgia depends on this strange unpredictability . In fact nostalgics from all over the world would find it difficult to say what ...
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... contemporary , ” and there was nothing radical about it . The militant and opposi- tional use of the word is what was “ modern ” and new . Modern acquires polemi- cal connotations in seventeenth - century France during the Quarrel ...
... contemporary , ” and there was nothing radical about it . The militant and opposi- tional use of the word is what was “ modern ” and new . Modern acquires polemi- cal connotations in seventeenth - century France during the Quarrel ...
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... contemporary photographic experiments . In his view , every epoch dreams the next one and in doing so revises the one before it . Present “ awakens ” from the dreams of the past but remains “ swollen ” by them . Swelling , awakening ...
... contemporary photographic experiments . In his view , every epoch dreams the next one and in doing so revises the one before it . Present “ awakens ” from the dreams of the past but remains “ swollen ” by them . Swelling , awakening ...
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... contemporary world . Then we would have to retrace our steps and slow down , " deploy instead of unveiling , add instead of subtracting , fraternize in- stead of denouncing , sort out instead of debunking . " 25 Off - modern art and ...
... contemporary world . Then we would have to retrace our steps and slow down , " deploy instead of unveiling , add instead of subtracting , fraternize in- stead of denouncing , sort out instead of debunking . " 25 Off - modern art and ...
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... contemporary history and local memories . Popular culture made in Hollywood , the vessel for national myths that America exports abroad , both induces nostalgia and offers a tranquilizer ; instead of disquieting am- bivalence and ...
... contemporary history and local memories . Popular culture made in Hollywood , the vessel for national myths that America exports abroad , both induces nostalgia and offers a tranquilizer ; instead of disquieting am- bivalence and ...
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