Ratcliffe, Matthew James orcid.org/0000-0003-4519-4833 (2024) When the past becomes future-like:A phenomenological study of memory, time, and self-familiarity. Continental Philosophy Review. ISSN 1387-2842
Abstract
This paper sets out a phenomenological account of how the autobiographical past can, on occasion, assume certain future-like qualities. I begin by reflecting on the analogy of a bore wave, as employed in a novel by Julian Barnes. Building on this, I turn to Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in order to address how our memories are revised in light of our current concerns and vice versa. Then, by adapting Edmund Husserl’s conception of temporal “protention”, I show how acts of remembering are integral to a process of ongoing reconciliation between our current orientation towards the future and the autobiographical past. They sustain, disrupt, and reconsolidate a non-localised, dynamic sense of who we are, in ways that are inseparable from how we experience time.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2024 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-024-09661-3 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11007-024-09661-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217483 |
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