Historical Memory as a Subject of Philosophical Analysis

The article compares the essential, contextual and systemic concepts of historical memory. In the first, historical memory is thought of in the interval of truth-value and inclusion in the structure of national identity. In the second case, the value content of historical memory depends on the gradation of conditions, which leads to a pluralism of interpretations. In this case, from the standpoint of epistemological holism, historical memory is interpreted as a kind of collective knowledge, and from the point of view of ontological holism it is expressed in intersubjective reality, the relationship of the Self and the Other. The article concludes that a systematic projection of the study of historical memory is currently promising. An autopoietic variant of system analysis is proposed, in which historical memory acts as one of the ways of self-observation of the statesystem and reflection of the external environment. Historical memory is defined as the ability of a state system to maintain and reproduce holistic meanings under any environmental conditions. The abstractions of the collective subject and the systemic subject differ. A collective entity may remain such without being a systemic entity, for example, when a State loses sovereignty. The logic of the collective subject’s activity can be value-neutral and instrumentalist. While the subject system acts as a carrier of the historical common and maintains internal integrity. Thus, the combination of subjective and systemic ontology in the understanding of historical memory removes the opposition of epistemological and ontological holism.

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