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- Nostalgia: Origins and Ends of an Unenlightened Disease
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
summary
Helmut Illbruck traces the concept of nostalgia from the earliest uses of the term in the seventeenth century to today as it evolves with different meanings and intensities in the discourses of medicine, literature, philosophy, and aesthetics. Following nostalgia’s troubled relations to the philosophical project of the Enlightenment, Illbruck’s study builds a cumulative argument about nostalgia’s modern significance that often revises and thoroughly enriches our understanding of cultural, literary, and intellectual history. Illbruck concludes with an attempt at a reinterpretation and defense of nostalgia, which seduces us to read and think with, rather than against, nostalgia’s wistful yearning for the past. Nostalgia: Origins and Ends of an Unenlightened Disease is a comprehensive, insistent, and profound interdisciplinary investigation of the history of an idea. It should appeal to readers interested in the cultural makings of the Enlightenment and modernity or in the histories of medicine, literature, and philosophy.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction: Original Questions
- pp. 3-28
- Chapter 4. The Ranz-des-Vaches
- pp. 79-100
- Chapter 7. Nostalgia’s Modern Translations
- pp. 143-184
- Chapter 8. Uncanny Acts of Violence
- pp. 185-196
- Chapter 9. Postmodern Reencounters
- pp. 197-212
- Conclusion: The End of Nostalgia
- pp. 213-252
- Bibliography
- pp. 291-308
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810166226
Related ISBN(s)
9780810128378
MARC Record
OCLC
830022962
Pages
332
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No