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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   INSIDE THE HERITAGE IDEA: FACTS, HEROES, AND COMMEMORATIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

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  Abstract:   In all eras, people have received events with fear, seeing in them dangerous discontinuities, susceptible of threatening the stability of existing structures. But, while traditional societies rarefied surprises through traditions and the cyclical time according to which they lived, modern societies tributary to linear, accelerated time are perpetuated through an excess of typified news, always the same, which render the event banal, transforming the unusual (accidents, death, cataclysms) into current events. The present becomes, much too quickly, immediate history, one that explains and renders everything historical, even before the event itself is thoroughly consummated. That is why, as modern individuals, we discover in memory a good pretext to slow time and to look behind us. The distance between history and memory is that between succession and resemblance, pretentiously otherwise called, contiguity. The time of memory recurs, in one form or another, and appeals to the origins, essential to them being the beginning. The time of history (historical time) is one of progress, which does no value the primordial moment, but rather the purpose. This utilitarianism leads one to rediscover the silent life of statues, compensating the lack of present through a surplus of past.  
         
     
         
         
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