Paul Ricœur on collective memory: the cohesion of social life

Autor/innen

  • Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8933-5285

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378639936

Schlagworte:

Collective memory, Remembering, Narrative, History, Social-phenomenology

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present a critical reconstruction of Ricœur’s analysis of the complex phenomenon of memory as a collective act of recollection. By focusing the attention on memory as a collective practice, through the use of resources drawn from phenomenology, sociology, and history, I seek to outline the role and the construction of the collective memorial discourse and its foundations, looking particularly at the eighth chapter of the third volume of Time and Narrative and at the work Memory, History, Forgetting. I will show that the identification and the location of ourselves with others in social collectivities imply to negotiate a gap between subjective and cosmic time. Temporality comes, then, in the plural: our being in time is not merely personal, but rather we are originally involved in a social and historical framework.

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Autor/innen-Biografie

Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France

Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Contemporary Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Prague.

Associate member of the Centre d’étude des Mouvements Sociaux (CEMS) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. 

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Veröffentlicht

2019-12-18

Zitationsvorschlag

Vendra, M. C. C. (2019). Paul Ricœur on collective memory: the cohesion of social life. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(3), 87–107. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378639936