Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 357-389. - Index

Introduction: taboo on nostalgia? -- Part 1: Hypochondria of the heart: nostalgia, history and memory -- 1. From cured soldiers to incurable romantics: nostalgia and progress -- 2. The angel of history: nostalgia and modernity -- 3. The dinosaur: nostalgia and popular culture -- 4. Restorative nostalgia: conspiracies and return to origins -- 5. Reflective nostalgia: virtual reality and collective memory -- 6. Nostalgia and post-communist memory -- Part 2: Cities and re-invented traditions -- 7. Archeology of metropolis -- 8. Moscow, the Russian Rome -- 9. St. Petersburg, the cosmopolitan province -- 10. Berlin, the virtual capital -- 11. Europa's Eros -- Part 3: Exiles and imagined homelands -- 12. On diasporic intimacy -- 13. Vladimir Nabokov's false passport -- 14. Joseph Brodsky's room and a half -- 15. Ilya Kabakov's toilet -- Immigrant souvenirs -- 17. Aesthetic individualism and the ethics of nostalgia -- Conclusion: Nostalgia and global culture: from outer space to cyberspace.