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The author pays attention to problems of the excess and the deficiency of collective memory, the latter understood as certain ideas of the past of given groups. He points to the “density of commemorating”, as well as individual, public, dominant, opposite, imposed and marginal types of memory. He introduces different interpretations and understanding of the collective memory, problems of its construction,...
Why do the citizens of Europe build walls? What is so solid in a wall to endow it with the power of division? The Berlin Wall is just one example of the enactment of political power. This paper is an attempt to catalog the most prominent walls, including The Long Walls (450-404 B.C.) from Athens to Piraeus, the Walls of Servious (378 B. C.), the Wall of Hadrian (121 A.D.), the Walls of Antonius (282...
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