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100 1 _aBarbara Cassin
240 1 0 _aNostalgie.
245 1 0 _aNostalgia:
_bwhen are we ever at home?/
_cby Barbara Cassin
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aNew York:
_bFordham University Press,
_c2016.
300 _axi, 78 pages ;
520 _a"Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory. Moving from Homer's and Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications of nostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions of exile and language. Ultimately, Cassin shows how contemporary philosophy opens up the political stakes of rootedness and uprootedness, belonging and foreignness, helping us to reimagine our relations to others in a global and plurilingual world"--
520 _a"Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language"--
650 0 _aHomesickness Literature
650 0 _aNostalgia Literature
650 7 _aLiterature
700 1 _aPascale-Anne Brault (tr.)
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