Nostalgia : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease /

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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 phi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Illbruck, Helmut (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Homesickness in literature.
Homesickness > Philosophy.
Nostalgia in literature.
Nostalgia > Philosophy.
Loneliness > psychology
Mal du pays > Philosophie.
Nostalgie dans la littérature.
Nostalgie > Philosophie.
MEDICAL > History.
Homesickness in literature
Nostalgia in literature
Heimweh
Philosophie
Nostalgie
Literatur > Motiv
Psychology.
Social Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: original questions
  • Nostalgia's early modern origins: cultural backgrounds
  • Dr. Thomas Willis and the science of nervous sensibility
  • Nostalgia's original theories: implications and effects
  • The ranz-des-vaches
  • "Medical" nostalgia and its uses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe
  • Critics of nostalgia: Kant, Schopenhauer, and the question of time
  • Nostalgia's modern translations
  • Uncanny acts of violence
  • Postmodern reencounters
  • Conclusion: the end of nostalgia.

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