{"product_id":"the-future-of-nostalgia","title":"The Future Of Nostalgia","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan 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  leeches  and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander  disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his troops  buried a soldier alive as a deterrent to nostalgia. In her new book  Svetlana Boym develops a comprehensive approach to this elusive ailment. Combining personal memoir  philosophical essay  and historical analysis  Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg  Moscow  Berlin  and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin  Nabokov  Mandelstam  and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden  from love letters on Kafkas grave to conversations with Hitlers impersonator  Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945910464565,"sku":"ByrdShop_0465007074","price":72.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780465007073.jpg?v=1769915030","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-future-of-nostalgia","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}