Abstract
This article examines the journey of nostalgia from the origin of the word to the modern and post-modern times, draws a conceptual outline of this particular emotion, and asks the possibility of it as an object of historical analysis and inquiry. Nostalgia, which started from a medical diagnosis of longing for homeland, has come to be recognized as a natural emotion of human beings facing the past that is becoming stale in modern times, and as a creative response. Furthermore, in the 20th century, new mass media and technology brought the imaginary past into an even more open public sphere, and as a result, nostalgia was found to be a new application as a tool for activating a consumption-oriented lifestyle and as a means of political propaganda. Today, nostalgia is regarded as a sentiment that can be analyzed historically and collectively, and is recognized as one of the signs of the borders of politics, economy, culture, art, and history.
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