O kultúre pamäti. Prečo sa spoločnosti pamätajú?
On the Culture of Memory. Why Do Societies Remember?

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the nature of dynamic historical memory. What is at stake in disputes about memory? Why again and again are there debates on the interpretation of the past? Tensions in social remembering lie in the relationship between memory and identity. Memory is not in any way neutral, but it is ideologically and politically tinged and in this sense also conquered. The logic of creating boundaries between “us” and “the others” is inscribed in the debate about memory and its role not only in historically questionable events, but also in obvious forms of presentation of history. Therefore it is good to mention in the introductory chapters of school books, that there is specific Austrian, German, French etc. history, which differs from other national histories, or more importantly, that history is constructed on the basis of national criteria. An attempt to create international history books as an alternative to the books written according to national criteria is still in its infancy.

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