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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... poets and philosophers . Neither poet nor philosopher , I nevertheless decided to write a his- tory of nostalgia , alternating between critical reflection and storytelling , hoping to grasp the rhythm of longing , its enticements and ...
... poets and philosophers . Neither poet nor philosopher , I nevertheless decided to write a his- tory of nostalgia , alternating between critical reflection and storytelling , hoping to grasp the rhythm of longing , its enticements and ...
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... poetic landscapes of the mind into cyberspace and outer space . Instead of a magic cure for nostalgia , a typology is offered that might illuminate some of nostalgia's mechanisms of seduction and manipulation . Here two kinds of ...
... poetic landscapes of the mind into cyberspace and outer space . Instead of a magic cure for nostalgia , a typology is offered that might illuminate some of nostalgia's mechanisms of seduction and manipulation . Here two kinds of ...
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... poetic commonplace.Yet the early modern conception embodied in the specific word came to the fore at a particular historical moment. “Emotion is not a word, but it can only be spread abroad through words,” writes Jean Starobinski, using ...
... poetic commonplace.Yet the early modern conception embodied in the specific word came to the fore at a particular historical moment. “Emotion is not a word, but it can only be spread abroad through words,” writes Jean Starobinski, using ...
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... poets and philosophers.The symptom of sickness came to be regarded as a sign of sensibility or an expression of new patriotic feeling.The epidemic of nostalgia was no longer to be cured but to be spread as widely as possible. Nos ...
... poets and philosophers.The symptom of sickness came to be regarded as a sign of sensibility or an expression of new patriotic feeling.The epidemic of nostalgia was no longer to be cured but to be spread as widely as possible. Nos ...
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... poets from different national traditions began to claim that they had a special word for homesickness that was radically untranslatable . While German heimweh , French maladie du pays , Spanish mal de corazon have become a part of ...
... poets from different national traditions began to claim that they had a special word for homesickness that was radically untranslatable . While German heimweh , French maladie du pays , Spanish mal de corazon have become a part of ...
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