Memory and Narrative in Social Theory

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ID4356429
AuthorsMyrian Sepúlveda Dos Santos (0000-0002-3215-4042, corresponding author), Myrian Sepúlveda Santos
Year2001
Volume10
Issue2-3
Pages163-189
Publication date2001-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x01010002002
OpenAlexW1551305236
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited15

The author argues that contemporary social theories cannot simultaneously accommodate the diachronic and synchronic dimensions of time within their frameworks, because they reduce the complexities of social life in order to cope with them. Jacques Derrida's and Walter Benjamin's writings on memory open up the possibility of thinking about the relation between memory and narrative in multiple ways. These two theorists affirm the discontinuity and the non-recognition between past events and present discourses and analyse a broad range of possibilities in the reading of history. The author argues that the simultaneity of the diachronic and synchronic dimensions of time becomes possible only when past and present are not thought of as two separate entities, as is common practice in social theory

Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Reading (process · Relation (database · Simultaneity · Social memory · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology

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