Nostalgia

"A rich and moving account of home and homelessness by one of the most important and distinctively original French thinkers of our time." -- -Simon Critchley The New School for Social Research "[La Nostalgie is] an erudite work in which [Cassin] incites us to make good use of this ambiguous, delightful and sometimes dangerous feeling." -L'Express "This precise and beautifully written exploration of the meaning of nostalgia (well served by the translation) is throughout, like all of Barbara Cassin's work, a meditation on languages in their plurality and their equivalence, and on translation. When we fully understand that we do not speak the logos and when we authentically experience that our language is just 'one language among others,' then we are ready to philosophize otherwise, to philosophize between languages, or, in Cassin's words, to 'philosophize in tongues.'" -- - from Souleymane Bachir Diagne's foreword