Memory and History: Some considerations on antinomies and paradoxes

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Memory and History: Some considerations on antinomies and paradoxes

Original language description

Collective memory does not retain the memories of the past as historical events really happened, but as they are remembered in the present. Memory includes only elements of the past, not the past as a whole. Theoretical thinking about memory has been shaped by opinions often arising from very different starting points. This article outlines ten antinomies characterised by the following terms: individual and collective memory, spirit and matter, saving and deleting, irrevocable and revocable history, spontaneous and purposeful memory, myth and science, rationality and irrationality. The text explains that memory works in a selective way and the contents which are stored in it have no permanent form, but change over time according to the needs of the specific present. Human memory does not workas rational machine, but rather is prone to distortions and errors. An important role in shaping collective memory is played by ideological influence and deep-rooted historical myths.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-29861P" target="_blank" >GP13-29861P: The entrance into Collective Memory: Social Construction of Fame in the Czech and Slovak National Prosopographical publications</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bulletin of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Sociology Series. Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta družby narodov, serija Sociologija

ISSN

2313-2272

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

7-18

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