The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym

The Future of Nostalgia

Svetlana Boym

432 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium...

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