Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia Becker Tobias
Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia Becker Tobias A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation.…
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Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia Becker Tobias
A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity.
Surveying the successive waves of nostalgia that swept the United States and Europe after the Second World War, he shows that longing for the past is more complex and sometimes more beneficial than it seems.The current meaning of "nostalgia" is surprisingly recent: until the 1960s, it usually just meant homesickness, in keeping with the original Greek word. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and sympathetic view. Linking popular culture to postwar politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany,
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