Non-subsumptive memory and narrative empathy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905066 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna Meretoja (0000-0002-8243-6371, University of Turku, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-40 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698020976458 |
| OpenAlex | W3129944766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article shows the relevance of a model of non-subsumptive understanding for theorising memory as a mode of sense-making that can contribute to understanding the other in ethically sustainable ways. It develops a theory of non-subsumptive memory and narrative empathy. While understanding is often seen as a form of appropriation, assimilation, and subsumption of the singular under the general, a hermeneutic approach suggests that there are also non-subsumptive, non-appropriative, dialogical forms of understanding. In dialogue with Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Gehen, ging, gegangen ( Go, Went, Gone), the article argues that cultural memorial forms, as (narrative) models of sense-making, tend to be productive when they adapt and change as they are applied to new situations and harmful when they subsume new experiences under fixed meaning templates. The article envisages memory as a resource for learning and other-oriented empathy in processes of dialogical understanding
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Cognitive science · Dialogical self · Empathy · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Provocation of Levinas
Cultural Memory Studies
The Limits of Critique
The Implicated Subject
Empathy and the Novel
The Ethics of Storytelling
Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life
Memory, History, Forgetting
Plenitude, scarcity and the circulation of cultural memory
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization
Trauma, Postmemory, and Empathy
Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives
Introduction
The Ambivalent Didacticism of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen
Writing history, writing trauma
Remembering Hope
Multidirectional Memory
Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
The Narrative Organization of Collective Memory
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |