Nostalgia
Subtitle: origins and ends of an unenlightened disease
By: Helmut Illbruck
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780810128378
Subjects: Nostalgia in literature; Homesickness in literature; Philosophy; Homesickness; Nostalgia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: original questions; title: Nostalgia's early modern origins: cultural backgrounds; title: Dr. Thomas Willis and the science of nervous sensibility; title: Nostalgia's original theories: implications and effects; title: The ranz-des-vaches; title: "Medical" nostalgia and its uses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; title: Critics of nostalgia: Kant, Schopenhauer, and the question of time; title: Nostalgia's modern translations; title: Uncanny acts of violence; title: Postmodern reencounters; title: Conclusion: the end of nostalgia.