IN THE PRINCIPLE IT WAS THE MEMORY

Authors

  • Jordi Casassas Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Keywords:

Memory, Historical memory, History, Historiographical structuralism, Historicism, Cultural factor, Policy

Abstract

The paradigm of “historical memory”, in line with the fragmentation of the historical discourse, has steadily been imposed everywhere since the decade of the eighties until it has become a cultural factor. Besides the evaluations made, one cannot leave out the coincidence of a contemporary crisis in Western civil consciousness with a true extension of the public use of history with the leading role of the memory in this, to the point that the former has been supplanted by the latter. It is however necessary to warn everyone that mythifi cation, induced amnesia or the unrealistic manipulation by those in power or the victors affects both history and memory in equal ways.

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Author Biography

Jordi Casassas, Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Doctor en Història Contemporània per la Universitat de Barcelona (1977) i catedràtic a la mateixa Universitat (1989); investigador principal del Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cultura i dels Intel·lectuals (des de 1990) i director del seu portaveu Cercles. Revista d’Història Cultural (des de 1998); codirector de la «Biblioteca dels Clàssics del Nacionalisme Català» (30 vols., 1983-1993); assessor de la «Història. Política. Societat i Cultura dels Països Catalans» (12 vols., 1995-1999). Ha publicat una vintena de llibres i nombrosos articles sobre la història política, institucional i cultural de Catalunya i de l’espai mediterrani.

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How to Cite

Casassas, J. (2014). IN THE PRINCIPLE IT WAS THE MEMORY. Segle XX, Revista Catalana d’Història, (1), 141–153. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/segleXX/article/view/9820

Issue

No. 1 (2008)

Section

Debates and dialogues

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