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Philosophy's Nostalgia
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Malpas, J, Philosophy's Nostalgia, Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking, Springer, Hagi Kenaan and Ilit Ferber (ed), Dordrecht, pp. 87-101. ISBN 9789400715028 (2011) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1503-5_7
Abstract
What is wrong with nostalgia? How and why has it come to be the case, as it
surely has, that to say of a philosophical position that it is 'nostalgic' is already to
indicate its inadequacy? In the inquiry that follows, I examine nostalgia both as a
mood or disposition in general, and as a mood or disposition that is characteristic of
philosophical reflection. Part of that inquiry will involve a re-thinking of the mood
of nostalgia and what that mood encompasses. Rather than understand the nostalgic
as characterised solely by the desire to return 10 a halcyon past, the nostalgic will be
explored through the connotations suggested by its Greek etymology as precisely a
longing for the return home - a return that cannot be achieved - a form of homesickness,
and so as discomfiting rather than comfortable, as bringing with it a sense of
the essential questionability of our own being in the world.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | nostalgia, homesickness, melancholia, philosophy, philosophical questioning |
| Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Research Group: | Philosophy |
| Research Field: | Metaphysics |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| UTAS Author: | Malpas, J (Professor Jeff Malpas) |
| ID Code: | 73975 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Deposited By: | Philosophy |
| Deposited On: | 2011-11-03 |
| Last Modified: | 2012-11-26 |
| Downloads: | 5 View Download Statistics |
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