PR 508: Nostalgia

Article Data

URL/PhilPapers Link:

Authors

S. A. Howard

Abstract

Next SectionThis article argues against two dominant accounts of the nature of nostalgia. These views assume that nostalgia depends, in some way, on comparing a present situation with a past one. However, neither does justice to the full range of recognizably nostalgic experiences available to us – in particular, ‘Proustian’ nostalgia directed at involuntary autobiographical memories. Therefore, the accounts in question fail. I conclude by considering an evaluative puzzle raised by Proustian nostalgia when it is directed at memories that the nostalgist herself regards as non-veridical

Video Review

Reviewer Reports

nogre0:

Rating: 75

unrealbrian:

Rating: 58

vipersgratitude:

Rating: 89

Tyndereos:

Rating: 38

Annfernal:

Rating: 75

Adam_in_rapture:

Rating: 83