{"product_id":"nostalgia-when-are-we-ever-at-home-9780823269518","title":"Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, French Voices Grand Prize \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNostalgia 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11825002\"\u003eBarbara Cassin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823269518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823269515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI038000\"\u003eLanguage\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT025000\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT020000\"\u003eComparative Literature\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Cassin\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eDictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eSophistical Practice: Toward a\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eConsistent Relativism\u003c\/em\u003e (Fordham). Forthcoming works include translations of two books co-written with Alain Badiou. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePascale-Anne Brault\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of French at DePaul University. She is the co-translator of several works of Jacques Derrida's, most recently \u003cem\u003eFor Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (Fordham). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSouleymane Bachir Diagne\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAfrican Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44339470205165,"sku":"9780823269518","price":34.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_e1b95357-17f1-4957-9a46-56728dc0f692.jpg?v=1698254102","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/nostalgia-when-are-we-ever-at-home-9780823269518","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}