Nostalgia : When Are We Ever at Home? /
Cassin, Barbara,author.
Brault, Pascale-Anne
Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory. Moving from Homer’s and Virgil’s foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications of nostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions of exile and language. Ultimately, Cassin shows how contemporary philosophy opens up the political stakes of rootedness and uprootedness, belonging and foreignness, helping us to reimagine our relations to others in a global and plurilingual world.
Specialized.
Translated from the French.
This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references.

Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory. Moving from Homer’s and Virgil’s foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications of nostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions of exile and language. Ultimately, Cassin shows how contemporary philosophy opens up the political stakes of rootedness and uprootedness, belonging and foreignness, helping us to reimagine our relations to others in a global and plurilingual world.
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Aeneas (Legendary character)
Odysseus (Greek mythology)
Homesickness.
Nostalgia
Homesickness in literature.
Barbara Cassin.
Hannah Arendt.
Homer.
Virgil.
exile.
foreign language.
home.
homeland.
language.
nostalgia.