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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... 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 considered ...
... 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 considered ...
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... everyday life related to one single obsession . In this respect nostalgia was akin to paranoia , only instead of a persecution mania , the nostalgic was possessed by a mania of longing . On the other hand , the nostalgic had an amazing ...
... everyday life related to one single obsession . In this respect nostalgia was akin to paranoia , only instead of a persecution mania , the nostalgic was possessed by a mania of longing . On the other hand , the nostalgic had an amazing ...
Side 8
... everyday loss and renewal . Odysseus's is not a story of individual sentimental longing and subsequent return home to family values ; rather , this is a fable about human fate . After all , Odysseus's homecoming is about nonrecognition ...
... everyday loss and renewal . Odysseus's is not a story of individual sentimental longing and subsequent return home to family values ; rather , this is a fable about human fate . After all , Odysseus's homecoming is about nonrecognition ...
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... everyday life into art, even if it wasn't a master- piece. Artificial nature begins to play an important part in the European imagina- tion since the epoch of baroque—the word itself signifies a rare shell. In the middle of the ...
... everyday life into art, even if it wasn't a master- piece. Artificial nature begins to play an important part in the European imagina- tion since the epoch of baroque—the word itself signifies a rare shell. In the middle of the ...
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... everyday juxtapositions of past and future , images of premodern and industrial , of a traditional Russian vil- lage playing hide - and - seek in the Soviet capital were for Benjamin important clues that defied ideological ...
... everyday juxtapositions of past and future , images of premodern and industrial , of a traditional Russian vil- lage playing hide - and - seek in the Soviet capital were for Benjamin important clues that defied ideological ...
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