The Future Of Nostalgia by Boym

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ISBN
9780465007073
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465007074
ISBN-13
9780465007073
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1698228

Product Key Features

Book Title
Future of Nostalgia
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Civilization, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, General, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Psychology, History
Author
Svetlana Boym
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-045454
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
909.82
Synopsis
What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Svetlana Boym opens up a new avenue of inquiry: the study of nostalgia, 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.
LC Classification Number
CB427.B67 2001

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