This volume investigates the relationship between nostalgia and contemporary social issues. From history and political theory to marketing and media, each chapter discusses the way nostalgia has been presented within a specific disciplinary context and shows how nostalgia as a topic of research has evolved over time.

Introduction: The Many Different Faces of Nostalgia – Exploring a Multifaceted and Multidisciplinary Emotion - Michael Hviid Jacobsen 1. Philosophy and Nostalgia: ‘Rooting’ within the Nostalgic Condition - Giulia Bovassi 2. History and Nostalgia: Historicizing a Multifaceted Emotion - Tobias Becker 3. Political Theory and Nostalgia: The Power of the Past in the History of Political Thought - Andrew R. Murphy 4. Sociology and Nostalgia: Micro- , Meso- and Macro-level Dimensions of an Ambiguous Emotion - Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Janelle L. Wilson 5. Psychology and Nostalgia: Towards a Functional Approach - Tim Wildschut and Constantine Sedikides 6. Anthropology and Nostalgia: Between Hegemonic and Emancipatory Projections of the Past - Michael Herzfeld 7. Media Studies and Nostalgia: Media Philosophy and Nostalgizing in Times of Crisis - Katharina Niemeyer 8. Marketing and Nostalgia: Unpacking the Past and Future of Marketing and Consumer Research on Nostalgia - Ela Veresiu, Thomas Derek Robinson and Ana Babić Rosario 9. Literature and Nostalgia: Vestiges of Paradise - Niklas Salmose and Eric Sandberg 10. Architecture and Nostalgia: The End of History, the End of the Future and the Prospect of Nostalgia - Fernando Quesada and Andrés Carretero Postscript: On Nostalgia of the Future and the Future of Nostalgia – Some Scattered Concluding Observations - Michael Hviid Jacobsen