Pamięć wielokierunkowa i agoniczna a polityka pamięci
Omnidirectional and agonic memory and the politics of memory

Summary/Abstract: The author reconstructs and critically analyzes contemporary models of social and cultural memory of the Holocaust and considers their consequences for the understanding of politics of memory. The subject of consideration are the dominant trends in memory studies, referring to Chantal Mouffe (the concept of agon) and, more deeply, to Mikhail Bakhtin (polyphony and dialogicity), i.e. the concepts of agonic and multidirectional memory. As a counterpoint to these concepts, the author develops threads underestimated in previous research: the issues of the social (class) condition of memory, symbolic violence and legitimacy, which shape cultural memory and representations of the past.

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