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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Cassin, Barbara,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brault, Pascale-Anne.; Diagne, Souleymane Bachir.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (96 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823269532; 9783110729023
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823269532?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Barbara Cassin.

Winner, French Voices Grand PrizeNostalgia 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.