MÉMOIRE, NOSTALGIE ET « LA FIN DE L'UTOPIE » À L'ÂGE DU « PRÉSENTISME

Less than a decade efter the proclamation cf "the end cf history", the anxieties about "the end cf utopia" are gaining ground in the intellectual field all over the world, in the context cf both "the crisis efthe future" and the haunting efthe present by the pair,ful pa...

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Published in:Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Studia Europaea 2023-12, Vol.68 (2), p.149-173
Main Author: Iorga, Alina
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017)
Cold War
Cultural heritage
Culture
Economic crisis
Extremes
Fixation
Memories
Memory
Mutation
Nation states
Nostalgia
Post Cold War period
Social dynamics
Trauma
Utopias
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Summary:Less than a decade efter the proclamation cf "the end cf history", the anxieties about "the end cf utopia" are gaining ground in the intellectual field all over the world, in the context cf both "the crisis efthe future" and the haunting efthe present by the pair,ful pasts. The latter two are the main consequences cf the fracture in the contemporary temporal order - occurred in the '70s and deepened after the fall cf the Iron Curtain - which defines the "presentist regime cf historicity". These dynamics are counterbalanced, in the same period, by a "global epidemic cf nostalgia", including the commodfied forms cf "retromania", that reveals the presentist 'faces cf utopianism", from the non-instrumental "retrospective utopias" - as poles cf "existential" types cf reflective nostalgic practices - to the instrumental "retrotopias" based on the "restorative nostalgia", which were mobillized in the contemporary memory wars, starting from the '80s. Reflecting the tensions between the fixation on the traumatic legacy efthe "age cf extremes" and the apprehensions about "the future cf nostalgia", the presentist dynamics cf multidirectional memory discloses corflictual landscapes (social, cultural, and political), from the mnemonic turn efthe '70s and the '80s - which has arisen against the background efthe decline cfboth we fare state and the nation-states, and cf the global economic crisis - to the post-Cold War contests around "the divised memories" cf "Europe's Europes", coexisting with the clashes cf contradictory 'faces" cf nostalgia and utopia.
ISSN:1224-8746
2065-9563
DOI:10.24193/subbeuropaea.2023.2.07