Nostalgia : When Are We Ever at Home? /
Cassin, Barbara
Nostalgia : When Are We Ever at Home? / Barbara Cassin. - 1 online resource (96 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword. Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Translator's Note -- Of Corsican Hospitality -- Odysseus and the Day of Return -- Aeneas: From Nostalgia to Exile -- Arendt: To Have One's Language for a Homeland -- Notes
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Winner, French Voices Grand PrizeNostalgia 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823269518 9780823269532
10.1515/9780823269532 doi
Homesickness in literature.
Homesickness.
Nostalgia--Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Language.
Barbara Cassin. Hannah Arendt. Homer. Virgil. exile. foreign language. home. homeland. language. nostalgia.
PN56.H563 / C3713 2016
809/.93353
Nostalgia : When Are We Ever at Home? / Barbara Cassin. - 1 online resource (96 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword. Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Translator's Note -- Of Corsican Hospitality -- Odysseus and the Day of Return -- Aeneas: From Nostalgia to Exile -- Arendt: To Have One's Language for a Homeland -- Notes
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Winner, French Voices Grand PrizeNostalgia 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823269518 9780823269532
10.1515/9780823269532 doi
Homesickness in literature.
Homesickness.
Nostalgia--Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Language.
Barbara Cassin. Hannah Arendt. Homer. Virgil. exile. foreign language. home. homeland. language. nostalgia.
PN56.H563 / C3713 2016
809/.93353