La posmemoria

[EN] The reflection on Auschwitz has entered a new phase because witnesses are disappearing and the time has come to think of memory with no survivors. To this refers “postmemory”, whose main task is a social construction of memory that fertilizes present with the significance of that past. As time...

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Autor: Mate, M. Reyes
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/138150
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/138150
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Memory
Revenge
Reconciliation
Europe
Ideologic contamination
Postmemory
Memoria
Venganza
Reconciliación
Europa
Contaminación ideológica
Posmemoria
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Sumario:[EN] The reflection on Auschwitz has entered a new phase because witnesses are disappearing and the time has come to think of memory with no survivors. To this refers “postmemory”, whose main task is a social construction of memory that fertilizes present with the significance of that past. As time is passing the look of memory is extended. It appears, for example, the topic of Germans as victims, a key issue to define the meaning of victim; it is also notable critical review from of memory usage within the Judaism. Not everything has been clean wheat. From a philosophical point of view is not an unimportant question how to read academic tradition that kept silent because they looked at another or because they had nothing to say about the barbarity. Finally, the fact that ancient texts of some survivors, as Antelme and Levi, are edited or reprinted now, invites to the reflection; against wear or misuse of terms forged by them, they appear again to face not their time but our.