Intimations of Nostalgia : Multidisciplinary Explorations of an Enduring Emotion

This volume investigates the relationship between nostalgia and contemporary social issues. From history and political theory to marketing and media, each chapter discusses the way nostalgia has been presented within a specific disciplinary context and shows how nostalgia as a topic of research has...

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Autor principal: Hviid Jacobsen, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Intimations of Nostalgia: Multidisciplinary Explorations of an Enduring Emotion
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • 'Nostophiles' versus 'nostophobics'
  • Nostalgia as pathology
  • The 'normalization' of nostalgia
  • Living in 'the age of nostalgia'
  • About this book
  • References
  • 1 Philosophy and Nostalgia: 'Rooting' within the Nostalgic Condition
  • Introduction
  • Nostalgia as maieutics
  • Temporality and identity within philosophical thought on nostalgia
  • The nostalgic condition within the postmodern liquid paradigm
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 2 History and Nostalgia: Historicizing a Multifaceted Emotion
  • Introduction
  • Why do historians reject nostalgia?
  • When was nostalgia?
  • How to historicize nostalgia?
  • Conceptual history
  • The history of temporalities
  • Memory studies
  • The history of emotions
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 Political Theory and Nostalgia: The Power of the Past in the History of Political Thought
  • Introduction
  • Nostalgia and Golden Age rhetoric: some preliminary remarks
  • Nostalgia and Golden Age thinking, Part 1: Thucydides, Augustine, Machiavelli
  • Nostalgia and Golden Age thinking, Part 2: Burke and his critics
  • Nostalgia and Golden Age thinking, Part 3: the American context
  • Conclusion: Nostalgic and Golden Age politics
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Sociology and Nostalgia: Micro-, Meso- and Macro-level Dimensions of an Ambiguous Emotion
  • Introduction
  • The foundational work of Fred Davis
  • Meaning and nostalgia
  • Memory and nostalgia
  • The self and nostalgia
  • Social structure and nostalgia
  • The rise of 'retrotopia'
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Psychology and Nostalgia: Towards a Functional Approach
  • Introduction
  • What is nostalgia?
  • Triggers of nostalgia
  • Functions of nostalgia
  • The full regulatory model: nostalgia as a balancing feedback mechanism
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6 Anthropology and Nostalgia: Between Hegemonic and Emancipatory Projections of the Past
  • Introduction: Anthropology's dilemma, anthropology's advantage
  • Social theory as nostalgic practice
  • Longing for hard times: colonialism, totalitarianism, apartheid
  • The social dimensions of nostalgia: performativity, intimacy, commensality
  • Nostalgia, heritage and agency
  • Conclusion without closure: The open-ended anthropology of nostalgia
  • Notes
  • References
  • 7 Media Studies and Nostalgia: Media Philosophy and Nostalgizing in Times of Crisis
  • Introduction
  • Media philosophy, nostalgia and medi(a)cation
  • Recent research on media and nostalgia
  • From media nostalgia to mediated nostalgia and media-induced nostalgia
  • Mediated nostalgia as a cultural style in media texts
  • Analogue and digital (tech)nostalgias
  • Institutional media nostalgia and nostalgia programming
  • Conclusion
  • References

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