Remembering and Forgetting as a Function of Life

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Remembering and Forgetting as a Function of Life

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

As Derrida observes, the ideal of a perfect memory has a spectral quality. The desire to achieve it is like the wish of Hanson, the fictional archaeologist, to go beyond the physical remains to grasp the past itself. What seduces us is the thought that remembering is like mechanical reproduction. We forget, however, that a photograph does not remember what we looked like any more than a recording remembers the sound of our voice. Only a living being can remember. Seen in this light, the ultimate problemof the ideal of a perfect memory is that it abstracts remembering from the context in which it functions. In this paper, I argue that this context is that of our embodied being-alive, with all the limitations that this implies. Such limitations impose ateleological structure on our remembering. They determine how memory functions on both an individual and a collective level.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Remembering and Forgetting as a Function of Life

Popis výsledku anglicky

As Derrida observes, the ideal of a perfect memory has a spectral quality. The desire to achieve it is like the wish of Hanson, the fictional archaeologist, to go beyond the physical remains to grasp the past itself. What seduces us is the thought that remembering is like mechanical reproduction. We forget, however, that a photograph does not remember what we looked like any more than a recording remembers the sound of our voice. Only a living being can remember. Seen in this light, the ultimate problemof the ideal of a perfect memory is that it abstracts remembering from the context in which it functions. In this paper, I argue that this context is that of our embodied being-alive, with all the limitations that this implies. Such limitations impose ateleological structure on our remembering. They determine how memory functions on both an individual and a collective level.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AA - Filosofie a náboženství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, Monográfico: Razón y vida

ISSN

1137-2400

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

4

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

ES - Španělské království

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

173-186

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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