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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