Benjamin sociographe de la mémoire collective ?
Is Walter Benjamin a sociographer of collective memory ? A comparison between the morphological, phenomenological and political topics of Halbwach’s sociology of memory and Benjamin’s writing on Paris allows us to answer this question. Morphological: it is mainly a question of seeing how collective...
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| Language: | fra |
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ADR Temporalités
2005-06-01
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| Series: | Temporalités |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/410 |
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| Summary: | Is Walter Benjamin a sociographer of collective memory ? A comparison between the morphological, phenomenological and political topics of Halbwach’s sociology of memory and Benjamin’s writing on Paris allows us to answer this question. Morphological: it is mainly a question of seeing how collective memory can crystallize in its urban setting. Phenomenological: the process of recollection supposes an encounter between a temporal pluralism and collective representations in images from which that urban space is not disconnected. Political: a type of recollection must be put to use by this image for the progress of civilization, especially against Fascism. At the end of this process, the role of the meta-theory appears decisive for the theory, showing up the major difference between our two authors that the epistemological struggle had brought closer. For if collective memory is reified in the city, this happens according to a singular representation of time from which it itself arises. However it is precisely in the name of a representation of time that the French sociologist and the German philosopher wanted to found, science on the one hand, action on the other. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-9006 2102-5878 |