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Author Illbruck, Helmut, author.

Title Nostalgia : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease / Helmut Illbruck
Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012

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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
Summary Helmut Illbruck traces the concept of nostalgia from the earliest uses of the term in the seventeenth century to today as it evolves with different meanings and intensities in the discourses of medicine, literature, philosophy, and aesthetics. Following nostalgia's troubled relations to the philosophical project of the Enlightenment, Illbruck's study builds a cumulative argument about nostalgia's modern significance that often revises and thoroughly enriches our understanding of cultural, literary, and intellectual history. Illbruck concludes with an attempt at a reinterpretation and defense of nostalgia, which seduces us to read and think with, rather than against, nostalgia's wistful yearning for the past. Nostalgia: Origins and Ends of an Unenlightened Disease is a comprehensive, insistent, and profound interdisciplinary investigation of the history of an idea. It should appeal to readers interested in the cultural makings of the Enlightenment and modernity or in the histories of medicine, literature, and philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Homesickness in literature.
Homesickness -- Philosophy
Nostalgia in literature.
Nostalgia -- Philosophy
Loneliness -- psychology
MEDICAL -- History.
Homesickness in literature
Nostalgia in literature
Heimweh
Philosophie
Nostalgie
Literatur Motiv
Psychology.
Social Sciences.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810166226
0810166224