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Nostalgia : When Are We Ever at Home? / Barbara Cassin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (96 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823269518
  • 9780823269532
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93353 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.H563 C3713 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)