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The Future of Nostalgia

By Svetlana Boym

The Future of Nostalgia

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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 The Future of Nostalgia, 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
2002-03-28
Publication Date:
2002-03-28
Publisher:
Basic Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0465007082
ISBN13:
9780465007080
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
471 g
Height:
15.1 cm
Width:
23.3 cm
Thickness:
3.5 cm
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