Nostalgia Barbara Cassin by Barbara Cassin 9780823269501, 0823269507 instant download after payment.

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.