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Nostalgia : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease
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- Creator
- Helmut Illbruck
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780810166226, 0810166224, 0810128373, 9780810128378
- OCLC
- ocn830022962
- 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