Doing Justice to the Past: Memory and criticism in Herbert Marcuse

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Arese, Laura
Año de publicación
2018
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In his inaugural lecture as director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt (1933), Horkheimer points out the need for a new understanding of history that avoids the contemporary versions of the Hegelian Verklärung. He synthesizes this challenge with an imperative: to do justice to past suffering. The result of this appeal can be found in the works of the members of the Frankfurt School in the form of multiple, even divergent, trains of thought that reach with unlike intensities the current debates on memory and its link with history. This paper focuses on three of these trains, which can be traced back to different periods of the work of Herbert Marcuse. It intends to systematize and present what can be considered alternative?although not necessarily contradictory?approaches aroused from the same concern over the critical power of nonreconciliatory memory: first, a genealogy inquiry that deconstructs the reified character of the given; second, a recollection of past images of happiness; and finally, a memory of the limits of all attainable freedom. Exploring these three moments, their shortcomings and tensions, may shed light on the complexity and present importance of the challenge they intend to face.

Fil: Arese, Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades; Argentina
Materia
MEMORIA
HISTORIA
CRÍTICA
MARCUSE
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spellingShingle Doing Justice to the Past: Memory and criticism in Herbert Marcuse
Arese, Laura
MEMORIA
HISTORIA
CRÍTICA
MARCUSE
title_short Doing Justice to the Past: Memory and criticism in Herbert Marcuse
title_full Doing Justice to the Past: Memory and criticism in Herbert Marcuse
title_fullStr Doing Justice to the Past: Memory and criticism in Herbert Marcuse
title_full_unstemmed Doing Justice to the Past: Memory and criticism in Herbert Marcuse
title_sort Doing Justice to the Past: Memory and criticism in Herbert Marcuse
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author Arese, Laura
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HISTORIA
CRÍTICA
MARCUSE
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HISTORIA
CRÍTICA
MARCUSE
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv In his inaugural lecture as director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt (1933), Horkheimer points out the need for a new understanding of history that avoids the contemporary versions of the Hegelian Verklärung. He synthesizes this challenge with an imperative: to do justice to past suffering. The result of this appeal can be found in the works of the members of the Frankfurt School in the form of multiple, even divergent, trains of thought that reach with unlike intensities the current debates on memory and its link with history. This paper focuses on three of these trains, which can be traced back to different periods of the work of Herbert Marcuse. It intends to systematize and present what can be considered alternative?although not necessarily contradictory?approaches aroused from the same concern over the critical power of nonreconciliatory memory: first, a genealogy inquiry that deconstructs the reified character of the given; second, a recollection of past images of happiness; and finally, a memory of the limits of all attainable freedom. Exploring these three moments, their shortcomings and tensions, may shed light on the complexity and present importance of the challenge they intend to face.<br />
Fil: Arese, Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades; Argentina
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