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 and Progress 3 2 • The Angel of History: Nostalgia and Modernity 19 3 • The Dinosaur: Nostalgia and Popular Culture 33 4 • Restorative Nostalgia: Conspiracies and Return to Origins 41 5 • Reflective Nostalgia:Virtual Reality ...
... Nostalgia and Progress 3 2 • The Angel of History: Nostalgia and Modernity 19 3 • The Dinosaur: Nostalgia and Popular Culture 33 4 • Restorative Nostalgia: Conspiracies and Return to Origins 41 5 • Reflective Nostalgia:Virtual Reality ...
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... nostalgic for, the old city or their childhood stories? How can one be homesick for a home that one never had? The ... nostalgia is HYPOCHONDRIA OF THE HEART: NOSTALGIA, HISTORY AND MEMORY The ruin.
... nostalgic for, the old city or their childhood stories? How can one be homesick for a home that one never had? The ... nostalgia is HYPOCHONDRIA OF THE HEART: NOSTALGIA, HISTORY AND MEMORY The ruin.
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... Nostalgia itself has a utopian dimension, only it is no longer directed toward the future. Sometimes nostalgia is not directed toward the past either, but rather sideways.The nostalgic feels stifled within the conventional confines of ...
... Nostalgia itself has a utopian dimension, only it is no longer directed toward the future. Sometimes nostalgia is not directed toward the past either, but rather sideways.The nostalgic feels stifled within the conventional confines of ...
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... nostalgia seemed like a waste of time and an unaffordable luxury. I had only just learned to answer the question ... nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or collective mythology, to revisit time like space ...
... nostalgia seemed like a waste of time and an unaffordable luxury. I had only just learned to answer the question ... nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or collective mythology, to revisit time like space ...
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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 ... nostalgic longing and progressive thinking is at the center of this inquiry. Unlike melancholia, which confines ...
... nostalgia is that it tends to confuse the actual home and the imaginary one. In extreme cases it can create a phantom ... nostalgic longing and progressive thinking is at the center of this inquiry. Unlike melancholia, which confines ...
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