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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... nostalgia : Nina Witoszek , Dragan Kujundic , Sven Spieker , Yuri Slezkine , Giuliana Bruno , Nina Gourianova , Christoph Neidhart , Elena Trubina , David Damrosch , Su- san Suleiman , Isobel Armstrong and Eva Hoffman , whose books ...
... nostalgia : Nina Witoszek , Dragan Kujundic , Sven Spieker , Yuri Slezkine , Giuliana Bruno , Nina Gourianova , Christoph Neidhart , Elena Trubina , David Damrosch , Su- san Suleiman , Isobel Armstrong and Eva Hoffman , whose books ...
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... nostalgia can be divisive . The city of Kaliningrad - Königsberg itself resembles a theme park of lost illusions ... nostalgia , he forgot his actual past . The illusion left burns on his face . Nostalgia ( from nostos - return home ...
... nostalgia can be divisive . The city of Kaliningrad - Königsberg itself resembles a theme park of lost illusions ... nostalgia , he forgot his actual past . The illusion left burns on his face . Nostalgia ( from nostos - return home ...
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... nostalgia . Optimistic belief in the future was discarded like an outmoded spaceship sometime in the 1960s . Nostalgia itself has a utopian dimension , only it is no longer directed toward the future . Sometimes nostalgia is not ...
... nostalgia . Optimistic belief in the future was discarded like an outmoded spaceship sometime in the 1960s . Nostalgia itself has a utopian dimension , only it is no longer directed toward the future . Sometimes nostalgia is not ...
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... nostalgia seemed like a waste of time and an unaffordable luxury . I had only just learned to answer the question “ how are you ? ” with an efficient “ fine ” instead of the Russian roundabout discus- sion of life's unbearable shades of ...
... nostalgia seemed like a waste of time and an unaffordable luxury . I had only just learned to answer the question “ how are you ? ” with an efficient “ fine ” instead of the Russian roundabout discus- sion of life's unbearable shades of ...
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... nostalgia is that it tends to confuse the actual home and the imaginary one . In extreme cases it can create a phantom homeland , for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill . Un- reflected nostalgia breeds monsters . Yet the ...
... nostalgia is that it tends to confuse the actual home and the imaginary one . In extreme cases it can create a phantom homeland , for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill . Un- reflected nostalgia breeds monsters . Yet the ...
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