Ideea de patrimoniu și memoria culturală: o reactualizare
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The Idea of Heritage and Cultural Memory: An Update
Abstract: What exactly would we like to achieve by rediscussing the meaning of heritage? A replacement and, at the same time, a sequential reappropriation of our “fanion” (or duty) pasts in all their diversity, beauty, and splintering, regardless of whether this “rekindling” of our exemplary histories is a warm or a less enthusiastic one. This is because not all the eras defining us are pleasing to the eye. The reactions, gestures, sensitivities, and oblivions employed to construct the historical/institutional/social memory of the two 20th-century totalitarian regimes are also part of our national heritage. Heritage is an ambiguous word in the dictionary, an ossified definition in the literature, and a contradictory experience in reality where, even more rarely, we come across our contemporaries. Or, who knows, none of the above, none of what we once thought would serve us, that it would chase away for self-oblivions through the non-forgetfulness of others. Especially since objects are now more whistleblowers than witnesses. The idea of heritage does not work if the antecedent (everything that parents, grandparents, relatives, and friends have been through) does not become the precedent, i.e., an exemplary past to be remembered, a past that is almost a model, a past from which we can learn and which we can pass on to younger people. Even a small one, or one of last resort, such as the effort to collect all sorts of humble items, symbolically negating the deprivations of the communism years, for every era has its own little consumerism; the one specific to left-wing totalitarianism proves more intriguing insofar as it was deeply compensatory, illustrating a particular culture of simulacrum. Heritage is a form of belonging; in other words, of togetherness with other subjects who experience their past in a similar or derivative way to mine and project it in objects, statues, commemorations, museums, customs, and ruins. If we rely on the cognitive value of emotion and not the idea of “invented tradition”, we will accept that heritage provides an identity configuration featuring variable, negotiated, contradictory boundaries that adapt to times and social demands.
Keywords: heritage, exemplary history, reminiscence, consumerism, culture of simulacrum
Citation suggestion: Mihalache, Andi. “Ideea de patrimoniu și memoria culturală: o reactualizare”. Transilvania, no. 10 (2025): 8-21.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2025.10.02.
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