The time of memory and the memory of time. A Jewish perspective

Authors

  • Paola Ricci Sindoni Università degli Studi di Messina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/4059

Keywords:

Jewish thought, temporality, messianism, historical memory, identity

Abstract

No doubt the memory, with its rituals devices and its practical forms – symbolic, represents Judaism a huge patrimony of narrative knowledge and foundation of his religious and civic identity. This paper aims to cover certain stages of Jewish thought, which thematizes the paradigm of temporality, understood as a virtuous circularity between the sacred and the profane, between time and eternity, so that the time of memory is requalifying as a memory of time. In this perspective it is certainly not just the time spent -place usually connected to the memory- to generate the heart of this. It’s rather the future, with its messianic charge, to reclaim the memory and history, whenever the Jew - and every man - neutralizes the vacuum time and corrosive of today by opening it to redemption. In this sense is the future time of the memory.

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Published

2016-11-28

How to Cite

Ricci Sindoni, P. (2016). The time of memory and the memory of time. A Jewish perspective. Bollettino Filosofico, 31, 397–413. https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/4059

Issue

Vol. 31 (2016): The piety of thought. Memory, testimony, forgetfulness

Section

Forum

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