9780823269518-0823269515-Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?

Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?

ISBN-13: 9780823269518
ISBN-10: 0823269515
Edition: 1
Author: Barbara Cassin
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback 96 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780823269518
ISBN-10: 0823269515
Edition: 1
Author: Barbara Cassin
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback 96 pages

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Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? (ISBN-13: 9780823269518 and ISBN-10: 0823269515), written by authors Barbara Cassin, was published by Fordham University Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Logic & Language (Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Logic & Language books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.55.

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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.

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