Historical Memory and Ethics of Discourse: Possible Interaction
The article is dedicated to the analysis of memory studies in terms of discourse ethics. The opportunities of ethical consideration of historical memory could be demonstrated by taking the concepts of first-wave memory studies by H. Bergson, M. Halbwachs and M. Bloch as an example. Hence, both the very structure of memory concepts and role of those concepts in theories of the authors listed above are reconstructed. After that, the conceptual constructions are subjected to ethical analysis whose results allow defining an integrated field research - the discursive space of global historical memory. This approach opens up new prospects for the development of memory studies in the context of reception the discourse ethics by the example of the concept of K.-O. Apel.