REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING AS A FUCTION OF LIFE

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Mensch, James [1 ]
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[1] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Humanities, Canadian Soc Continental Philosophy, Prague, Czech Republic
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Memory; Remembering; Forgetting; Being-Alive;
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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 problem of 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 a teleological structure on our remembering. They determine how memory functions on both an individual and a collective level.
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页码:177 / 190
页数:14
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