To the problem of conceptualization of historical memory

Abstract

Aim to proceed the conceptualization of historical memory. The author expresses the idea that conceptualization lays within the philosophical boundaries of interpretations of the socio-ontological grounds for historical memory. The socio-ontological foundations allow us to reveal the ontological status of historical memory on different levels of being. At the level of social being, the historical memory acts as the ability of the society to fix the stages of interaction with the environment, ontologizing the process of human appropriation of the natural material. On the institutional level, the historical memory fixes its own content in the system of social institutions, with the help of which the functions of public policy, effective management and education are performed. At the existential level, the historical memory preserves and continues the life of the dynasty, the family, and the individual in spatial and temporal coordinates: the past here; the past here and now; the past here and there. The author suggests including the problematics of historical memory in the interdisciplinary research to expand the boundaries of its conceptualization. The ontological commonality of historical and biological memory is observed, which enhances the fundamental status of historical memory.