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Nostalgia

Illbruck, Helmut.

Nostalgia origins and ends of an unenlightened disease / [electronic resource] : Helmut Illbruck. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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