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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... dreams and masks of the Theater in the Architectural Environment ; and Marieta Tourian and Alexander Margolis for being the best Petersburg guides . My high school best friend , Natasha Kychanova - Strugatch , brought back some not - so ...
... dreams and masks of the Theater in the Architectural Environment ; and Marieta Tourian and Alexander Margolis for being the best Petersburg guides . My high school best friend , Natasha Kychanova - Strugatch , brought back some not - so ...
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... dream and everyday life . The moment we try to force it into a single image , it breaks the frame or burns the surface . It would not occur to us to demand a prescription for nostalgia . Yet in the sev- enteenth century , nostalgia was ...
... dream and everyday life . The moment we try to force it into a single image , it breaks the frame or burns the surface . It would not occur to us to demand a prescription for nostalgia . Yet in the sev- enteenth century , nostalgia was ...
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... dream of freedom . I realized that nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology . At first glance , nos- talgia is a ... dreams . In a broader sense , nos- talgia is rebellion against the modern idea of time , the time of history and ...
... dream of freedom . I realized that nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology . At first glance , nos- talgia is a ... dreams . In a broader sense , nos- talgia is rebellion against the modern idea of time , the time of history and ...
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... dream of Europa from the margins , the eccentric vision of the experimental civil society and aesthetic , rather than market , liberalism . Unlike the Western pragmatic trans- actional relationship of the idea of “ Europe , ” the ...
... dream of Europa from the margins , the eccentric vision of the experimental civil society and aesthetic , rather than market , liberalism . Unlike the Western pragmatic trans- actional relationship of the idea of “ Europe , ” the ...
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... dreams , heaviness of the heart . . . continuous fear , sorrow , discontent , superflu- ous cares and anxiety . " For Robert Burton , melancholia , far from being a mere physical or psychological condition , had a philosophical ...
... dreams , heaviness of the heart . . . continuous fear , sorrow , discontent , superflu- ous cares and anxiety . " For Robert Burton , melancholia , far from being a mere physical or psychological condition , had a philosophical ...
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