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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. Read more

ASIN 0465007082
ISBN10 9780465007080
ISBN13 978-0465007080
Edition 1st (first) Trade Paper
Language English
Publisher Basic Books
Dimensions 6 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
Grade level 11 and up
Item Weight 1.3 pounds
Reading age 18 years and up
Print length 432 pages
Publication date March 28, 2002

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