The Monument as a Conceptual Archive of Political Discourse: A Philosophical Analysis from the Conceptual History

This article analyzes the monument as a conceptual archive that tries to establish thepermanence of political discourse on space,which in turn becomes the object that allows us to follow the change of meaning of the concepts that compose it. The study is approached mainly from conceptual history (Be...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Cristiá, Felix Alejandro
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2024
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/60015
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/60015
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Monumento
discurso
historia conceptual
filosofía política
Reinhart Koselleck
Monument
discourse
conceptual history
political philosophy
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Summary:This article analyzes the monument as a conceptual archive that tries to establish thepermanence of political discourse on space,which in turn becomes the object that allows us to follow the change of meaning of the concepts that compose it. The study is approached mainly from conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte), insofar as it focuses on the uses of conceptsboth at a given moment and according to their meaning changes throughout history. This can be useful to know the monument’s social scope–and legitimacy– as the container of collective memory. The memory the monument tries tomake last can support the eventual update or delegitimization of the discourses that have conceptually erected it. Therefore, the monument itself can host its revocation.