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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... Individualism and the Ethics of Nostalgia Conclusion : Nostalgia and Global Culture : From Outer Space to Cyberspace 345 Notes 357 Index 391 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Nostalgia is not only a longing for a lost VIII CONTENTS.
... Individualism and the Ethics of Nostalgia Conclusion : Nostalgia and Global Culture : From Outer Space to Cyberspace 345 Notes 357 Index 391 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Nostalgia is not only a longing for a lost VIII CONTENTS.
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... space . A contemporary Russian saying claims that the past has become much more unpredictable than the future . Nostalgia depends on this strange unpredictability . In fact nostalgics from all over the world would find it difficult to ...
... space . A contemporary Russian saying claims that the past has become much more unpredictable than the future . Nostalgia depends on this strange unpredictability . In fact nostalgics from all over the world would find it difficult to ...
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... space allowed people to make pri- vate use of their time . Retrospectively and most likely nostalgically , I thought that the slow rhythm of reflective time made possible the dream of freedom . I realized that nostalgia goes beyond ...
... space allowed people to make pri- vate use of their time . Retrospectively and most likely nostalgically , I thought that the slow rhythm of reflective time made possible the dream of freedom . I realized that nostalgia goes beyond ...
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... space on time and time on space and hinders the distinction between subject and object ; it is Janus - faced , like a double - edged sword . To unearth the fragments of nostalgia one needs a dual archeology of memory and of place , and ...
... space on time and time on space and hinders the distinction between subject and object ; it is Janus - faced , like a double - edged sword . To unearth the fragments of nostalgia one needs a dual archeology of memory and of place , and ...
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Svetlana Boym. Berlin examining a dual archeology of the concrete urban space and of urban myths through architecture , literature and new urban ceremonies , from the St. Petersburg Carnival of city monuments to the ahistorical Berlin ...
Svetlana Boym. Berlin examining a dual archeology of the concrete urban space and of urban myths through architecture , literature and new urban ceremonies , from the St. Petersburg Carnival of city monuments to the ahistorical Berlin ...
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