O niepamięci inaczej
About oblivion differently

Summary/Abstract: The text consists of two parts. In the first part the dominant in sociology and cultural studies approach to the problem of oblivion are discussed. In the second part the author presents its proposals. He emphasizes the need to distinguish between ignorance and oblivion. Ignorance is defined as gaps in historical erudition, its causes lie with the wrong education. Oblivion of the past is described as the opposite of memory. We have to do with the memory of the past, if past experience become somehow important in the functioning of the individual in the world (the sense of its identity, its identification in collectivities, the election philosophical, emotional experience and/or aesthetic). The distinction between the oblivion and the knowledge is important both from a practical and theoretical point of view and lack of knowledge and shortage of memory are two different phenomena. The first can be remedied by improving education, the second direct action would be ineffective, because there are important general cultural trends. In further parts of the article, the author discusses the transformation of forms of oblivion stimulated new trends in culture.

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