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Anthony Esolen, "Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World"
English | ISBN: 1621578011 | 2018 | 256 pages | MOBI | 873 KB
"A true master of the moral imagination, Esolen breaks through the sentimental surface of nostalgia to reveal its hidden metaphysical depths in the human heart. Homescikness is the illness of our age, and Esolen shows us the way home." - Nathan Schlueter, Professor of Philosphy and Religion, Hillsdale College
Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age.
In this profound reflection, Anthony Esolen explores the true meaning of nostalgia and its place in the human heart. Drawing on the great works of Western literature from the
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