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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798705103321

Autore

Cassin Barbara

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8232-6954-X

0-8232-6971-X

0-8232-6953-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

PHI000000

Altri autori (Persone)

BraultPascale-Anne

DiagneSouleymane Bachir

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Homesickness

Nostalgia - Philosophy

Homesickness in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia 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.