Cultura si memorie (I) Elemente pentru o fenomenologie a canonului cultural

The author tries to find the necessary support for his approach, concerning the cultural memory, in bergsonian phenomenology, in which the elements of psychological observation are not yet sharpsly separated; so they can serve as a fruitful field of research, especially since the phenomenon of memory has an essential psychological dimension. Briefly, this reflection investigates the possible conditions of culture in a world of nature, and memory in a world of matter. Conclusions: First of all, the past (being patrimonialised and metabolised), reverberating in the present, represents the sub-ego of the communities – their veritable hypokeimenon. Furthermore, memory has an eminent sense of identity, as the past’s relevance for the present existence is decisive, to the extent that the heritage provides geometrising schemes of reality – hence the possibility of a crystalised vision of the world –, and to the extent that the immediate future can be considered a probability wave of the past; the decline of impersonal piety towards tradition is a symptom of identity destruction.