Francisco Erice, Guerras de la memoria y fantasmas del pasado. Usos y abusos de la memoria colectiva. Oviedo, Eikasía, 2009, 436 págs.

Abstract

From a structural point of view, the author has divided the book into two parts, the first focused on defining the history and definition of the concept of collective memory and the second dedicated to exposing some of the most outstanding combats for the past both at the national level as international in which the notion is relevant. It is in the first part where the methodological issues are addressed with the usual rigor in Francisco Erice, which, precisely because he is the one who develops them, acquire a depth greater than usual. This is not a superficial exposition in which he makes a declaration of principles of method. Without ever declaring himself a philosopher, the very development of the work operationally includes multiple philosophical references used with a critical (gnoseological) sense. Gadamer, Derrida, Vattimo, Bergson, Bueno, Benjamin, all melted, according to their own confession, in the crucible of the materialist and critical perspective that is unequivocally anchored in Marxism.