The Phenomenon of Collective Memory at The Intersection of Philosophical And Methodological Attitudes

Abstract

The article substantiates the thesis that the current philosophical and methodologi­cal approaches to the phenomenon of collective memory open up two prospects for its philosophical understanding. The authors emphasize the fundamental irre­ducibility of these prospects. Collective memory can be considered as a phenome­non, ultimately, reducible, to the ability of an individual person to save informa­tion about the past, and to realize, relying on it, his individual self. In this case, physiological prerequisites and psychological ones in the best case, the socio-psy­chological parameters of communicative structures, in fact, ensuring the collectiv­ity of this kind of memory, and philosophically – the traditional problems, up­dated by research areas – the mind-body problem, the consciousness, and the brain in the context of the ever-changing technical parameters of communication, etc. A different perspective on collective memory is opened when immersed in an individual’s ability to recall specific historical and cultural contexts of the social identity of a man. Here, the focus is on philosophical issues, one way or another revealing the relationship of the individual ability with the generic experience of mankind, broadcast in various cultural forms. Moreover, today a special place here is occupied by the question of the forms of translation of collective memory and their interpretation in existentially significant forms. In the opinion of the au­thors, it is this aspect of philosophical topics that is of greatest interest today.