Memory, History, Morality
Memory, history, morality: the socialist past today
11-12th September 2008, Newcastle University (UK)
Memory and history, it has been argued, are closely connected to identity, both communal and individual. Memory and history are therefore also made in the present according to present demands. Yet, the past sometimes also presses into the present, or, as Bergson writes 'the past that is gnawing on present and future'.