Nostalgia : origins and ends of an unenlightened disease / Helmut Illbruck.

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.

x, 322 pages ; 23 cm

Introduction: original questions -- Nostalgia's early modern origins: cultural backgrounds -- Dr. Thomas Willis and the science of nervous sensibility -- Nostalgia's original theories: implications and effects -- The ranz-des-vaches -- "Medical" nostalgia and its uses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe -- Critics of nostalgia: Kant, Schopenhauer, and the question of time -- Nostalgia's modern translations -- Uncanny acts of violence -- Postmodern reencounters -- Conclusion: the end of nostalgia.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-307) and index.