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Aspects of memory acts: transnational cultural memory and ethicsKeywords: collective memory , cultural memory , remembering , performativity , speech acts , ethics , responsibility , philosophy of language Abstract: In the paper I use arguments from Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin and Judith Butler to show how the concepts of collective memory and of performativity can help to formulate some ideas about what an ethics of memory can deal with. The positions of speakers or agents and the question of responsibility play a fundamental role in this argument.
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