Emptiness of memory. Uses and abuses of history in public life

Authors

  • Stefano Pivato Universitat d’Urbino «Carlo Bo»

Keywords:

History, Historical memory, Politics, Italy, Fascism, Antifascism

Abstract

At present we attend to a distancing process regarding the historical knowledge. The old idea about studying the past to understand the present has been replaced by a vulgar and instrumental knowledge of the history for the political uses in
the present, specially accentuated dynamics in Italy. The appearance of new political parties —which takes advantage of current generation’s memory’s emptiness— is associated to the segmentation of the «historical memory» by means of a not scientific review of the Italian History. The result of rewriting the past of Italy, by the centred-right wing parties hand, is a shared memory where the fascism remains absolved and antifascism is despised.

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How to Cite

Pivato, S. (2014). Emptiness of memory. Uses and abuses of history in public life. Segle XX, Revista Catalana d’Història, (1), 13–36. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/segleXX/article/view/5800

Issue

No. 1 (2008)

Section

Researches and essays

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