Ebook: Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 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.;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.