How Is a Community of National Memory Possible?

  • Jingrong Zhao
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Accepted date: 2024-12-24

  Online published: 2025-01-24

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Abstract

According to the collective and public attributes of national memory, the most fundamental content of a community of national memory lies in the collective memory and collective forgetting. The textual community serves as the precondition and basic path for the constitution of the national memory community. On the basis of memory textualization, repetitive performance and habit formation also make contribution to the construction of a community of national memory. As a holistic personality, the national collective must repeat the past and traditions of the nation through rituals, physical and other social practices in order to cultivate the nation’s cultural habits or cultural unconsciousness and promote the final formation of the community of national memory. It also confirms the inevitability of collective memory and collective forgetting, as well as their important roles for a community of national memory.

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Jingrong Zhao . How Is a Community of National Memory Possible?[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2025 , 57(1) : 98 -105 . DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.01.010

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