Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Memory in the Ontopoiesis of Life Book Two, Analecta Husserliana (The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research), vol 102, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Editör, Springer, London/Berlin , Dordrecht, ss.307-334, 2009
The aim of this paper is to conduct an inquiry that would illuminate how a
phenomenological account of memory may govern some basic issues of our
lives: the meaning of our collectivity and spirituality, the cultural embodiment
of our experiences and memories, and their collective status, the question of
intimacy and unity in the universe of our experiences. I shall consider this
account of memory by focusing on William James’s radically empiricist, pluralist,
and pragmatic philosophy. In reading James, my aim is to propose a
notion of collective memory as the cash-value of James’s spiritualism. This
proposal will inevitably lead us to James’s confrontation with Hegelian Spirit,
or Absolute, as an alternative hypothesis in understanding the intimacy, the
unity, and the spirituality of the universe. I shall seek to derive some implications
from their profound articulations in order to suggest a more pragmatic
and releasing conception of collective memory as freeing us from the burden
of the past by socially transforming it into prospects for action, and by aesthetically
deploying it to symbolic expressions embodied in art and cultural
works. The approach that I propose aims to relocate the philosophical concept
of memory in a perspective that acknowledges life or becoming in terms of its
excessive dynamism.