The Future of Nostalgia

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Svetlana Boym

Verlag:

Basic Books

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6LV3KGN

EAN: 9780465007080

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mo, 20.07.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 39.25

Beschreibung

From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging “A remarkable book… brilliant. ”―New York Times 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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Svetlana Boym

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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