Open Access"MEMORY POLICY" AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF WESTERN IDENTITY
Author(s) -
Artjom FOMENKOV,
Maxim BYVALTSEV
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vestnik bist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2078-9033
pISSN - 2078-9025
DOI - 10.47598/2078-9025-2021-2-51-32-36
Subject(s) - the holocaust , identity (music) , repentance , repetition (rhetorical device) , political science , history , sociology , law , theology , philosophy , aesthetics , linguistics
This article reveals the connection between the "policy of memory", which was developed in the post-war Germany, and the modern practice of repentance to the peoples of the former colonies, which is characteristic of Western countries. It is concluded that the "policy of memory", originally aimed at the inadmissibility of the repetition of the Holocaust in the future, has become part of the identity in the countries of the West.