The Future of Nostalgia
Paperback 432 pages English March 28, 2002
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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.
- Author:
- Svetlana Boym
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Publication Date:
- March 28, 2002
- Number of pages:
- 432 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0465007082
- ISBN-13:
- 9780465007080