Historical Truth Contrasted with Individual Memory and Communication Memory

• Autores: Krzysztof Polit
• Localización: Out of the Prison of Memory. Nations and Future / Vladimer Luarsabishvili (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-9941-9619-9-1, págs. 3-29
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The first part of the article contains general reflections regarding the place of the time phenomenon, the past and the nature of history in philosophy. The second part of the article analyses the three types of memory employed in historical analysis: individual historical memory, communication memory and cultural memory. In the third part the author attempts to substantiate the thesis that reaching the historical truth regarded as reconstruction of what really took place in the past – only two types of memory of the given three are of importance – individual memory and communication memory. Cultural memory, in contrast, is governed by completely different objectives than those of accurate reconstruction of historical facts.