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Nostalgia : Origins and Ends of an Unenlightened Disease /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Illbruck, Helmut
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.