TY - JOUR
T1 - Nostalgia
AU - Margalit, Avishai
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - This paper Nostalgia has two distinct parts: One, accounting for nostalgia, by pointing out a systematic distortion in cases of nostalgic memoriesidealizing the past and presenting it as a sentimental realm of pure innocence. This distortion typifies kitsch morality, morality guided by sentimentality that can easily turn into brutality. For attacking the innocent seems to justify any brutality in return. Two, an account of what is an ethics of memory, claiming that memory as the case of nostalgia suggests is a fertile ground for ethical discourse, which is different from the politics of memory.
AB - This paper Nostalgia has two distinct parts: One, accounting for nostalgia, by pointing out a systematic distortion in cases of nostalgic memoriesidealizing the past and presenting it as a sentimental realm of pure innocence. This distortion typifies kitsch morality, morality guided by sentimentality that can easily turn into brutality. For attacking the innocent seems to justify any brutality in return. Two, an account of what is an ethics of memory, claiming that memory as the case of nostalgia suggests is a fertile ground for ethical discourse, which is different from the politics of memory.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959224468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10481885.2011.581107
DO - 10.1080/10481885.2011.581107
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AN - SCOPUS:79959224468
SN - 1048-1885
VL - 21
SP - 271
EP - 280
JO - Psychoanalytic Dialogues
JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues
IS - 3
ER -