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Agnes Arnold-Forster
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April 2021
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“Immigrants, refugees and the displaced might have yearned for the homes they had left behind – but those homes had gone. They longed for somewhere, but that somewhere was a place preserved in a particular moment in history.”
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
“Davis was one of the first social scientists to theorize nostalgia. He argued that nostalgia made false use of the past. It is a reconstruction of events that can never offer a perfect facsimile. As a result, nostalgia tells us more about the present, its moods and anxieties, than about past realities.”
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
“Like many of those who lived through the Second World War, he had witnessed the horrifying consequences of overly myopic nationalism – a sentiment he partially blamed on nostalgic tendencies among people who had never quite managed to wrest themselves from the fantasies of youth and the family. Fascism, for him, was an unintended consequence of societies that were resistant to change.”
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
― Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
