Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Original Questions
Chapter 1. Nostalgia’s Early Modern Origins: Cultural Backgrounds
Chapter 2. Dr. Thomas Willis and the Science of Nervous Sensibility
Chapter 3. Nostalgia’s Original Theories: Implications and Effects
Chapter 4. The Ranz-des-Vaches
Chapter 5. “Medical” Nostalgia and Its Uses in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Europe
Chapter 6. Critics of Nostalgia: Kant, Schopenhauer, and the Question of Time
Chapter 7. Nostalgia’s Modern Translations
Chapter 8. Uncanny Acts of Violence
Chapter 9. Postmodern Reencounters
Conclusion: The End of Nostalgia
Notes
Bibliography
Index