Experiências primárias e descontinuidades da recordação: notas a partir de um texto de Reinhart Koselleck

Abstract

This article takes as its starting point a text by Reinhart Koselleck on the subject of memory, which examines supposed discontinuities between primary experiences and secondary forms of memory. Although this is a specific text and its statements are not intended to be understood as the foundation of a supposed thought-content unit of the author, it indicates some possible relationships with theses found in his other works. Then, some of his formulations are brought into a more strictly epistemological plane and compared with theses of authors such as Aleida Assmann, Joël Candau, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Ricoeur. The goal here is just to map some problems considered relevant when dealing with relationships among history, memory, truth, and justice, without any pretense to solve them.