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Nostalgia [electronic resource] : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease / Helmut Illbruck.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. cm.)ISBN:
  • 9780810166226
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 152.4 23
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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.
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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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