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Nostalgia : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Illbruck, Helmut
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Nostalgia > Philosophy. Nostalgia in literature. Homesickness > Philosophy. Homesickness in literature.

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.