Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of apolitical community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides aneloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for ahomeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimaginehome in terms of language rather than territory.Moving from Homer'sand Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writingsof Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications ofnostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions ofexile and language.Ultimately, Cassin shows how contemporaryphilosophy opens up the political stakes of rootedness and uprootedness,belonging and foreignness, helping us to reimagine our relations toothers in a global and plurilingual world.