Nostalgia - by Barbara Cassin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Winner, French Voices Grand Prize <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[La Nostalgie is] an erudite work in which [Cassin] incites us to make good use of this ambiguous, delightful and sometimes dangerous feeling."-- "--L'Express"<br><br>This precise and beautifully written exploration of the meaning of nostalgia (well served by the translation) is throughout, like all of Barbara Cassin's work, a meditation on languages in their plurality and their equivalence, and on translation. When we fully understand that we do not speak the logos and when we authentically experience that our language is just 'one language among others, ' then we are ready to philosophize otherwise, to philosophize between languages, or, in Cassin's words, to 'philosophize in tongues.'<b>----- from Souleymane Bachir Diagne's foreword, <i></i></b><br><br>"A rich and moving account of home and homelessness by one of the most important and distinctively original French thinkers of our time."<b>-----Simon Critchley, <i>The New School for Social Research</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br><strong>Barbara Cassin</strong> is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and president of the board of the Collège International de Philosophie. She is the editor of <em>Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon</em> and author of <em>Sophistical Practice: Toward a</em> <em>Consistent Relativism</em> (Fordham). Forthcoming works include translations of two books co-written with Alain Badiou. <p/><strong>Pascale-Anne Brault</strong> is Professor of French at DePaul University. She is the co-translator of several works of Jacques Derrida's, most recently <em>For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy</em> (Fordham). <p/><strong>Souleymane Bachir Diagne</strong> is Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of <em>African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude</em>.<br>
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