Ismétlés és emlékezés
Repetition and memory

Summary/Abstract: My reading of Plato attempts to show how remembering (anamnesis), conducted through “right thinking” and connected to the tradition of orality, and historical memory, which takes the form of scriptural tradition and conservation, become associated and are confronted with each other in the contemporary reading of the Timaeus, which rests on the pretext of illustrating with a concrete example the Republic’s plan of the ideal city-state. Furthermore, this interpretation tries to reveal the various functions of repetition within the relationship between model and likeness, (actual) reality and (recounted) narrative, “right thinking” and truth, in the context of these two forms of remembrance. My comparative reading of the Timaeus and Critias also focuses the attention on the complexity of Plato’s art of writing and philosophical thinking, as well as on the ways in which the commitment to right thinking can lead to well-founded metaphysical constructions, while also revealing clues to their deconstruction.

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