Language and Experience in the Post-Genocide Society

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  • Davit MOSINYAN Department of Philosophy and Logic named after Academician Georg Brutian at Khachatur Abovian ASPU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v8i1.174

Keywords:

language, experience, pre-linguistic experience, history, memory, genocide, past, presence, otherness

Abstract

This paper discusses theoretical and methodological issues concerning the relationship between language-history and experience-memory in post-genocide societies. Here an attempt is made to show how it is possible to remember the past and with the same time to avoid the overwhelming influence of foregoing trauma.

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Author Biography

Davit MOSINYAN, Department of Philosophy and Logic named after Academician Georg Brutian at Khachatur Abovian ASPU

(PhD) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Logic named after Academician Georg Brutian, at Khachatur Abovian ASPU, Yerevan, Armenia. His areas of interest include philosophy of history, philosophy of culture, epistemology, and semiotics of cinema. He is author of 3 monographs and more than 20 scientific articles. Recent publications are: “Perspectives of Thinking of Egern: from Prehistory to History”, “The Philosophy of War: Thoughts on the «Four Day War»”, “Hayden White's Idea of Metahistory in the Context of Linguistic Turn”.

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Published

2017-06-29

How to Cite

MOSINYAN, D. (2017). Language and Experience in the Post-Genocide Society. WISDOM, 8(1), 60–63. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v8i1.174

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