Gianni Vattimo, Verwindung, and 'Reactive Nihilism': 'Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be'.
Technology has led to culture being atomised and broken down, which leads to difficulties in imagining how each decade will be remembered in the future. Nevertheless, it is hard to imagine nostalgic feelings ending. Nostalgia will evolve to be based around the individual (subjectivised) or the group...
| Publicado en: | Heythrop Journal Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 413 - 431 |
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