Abstract

RODRIGUEZ CASTILLO, Luis. Memory and Political Responsibility. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2020, vol.15, e519.  Epub Mar 05, 2021. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2020.v15.519.

The work reviewed discusses a broad spectrum of issues: the relationship between history and historical memory, the contribution made by testimonies, the risks implied by places of memory, as well as the relationship between memory and forgetting. The review’s final reflection highlights the importance of three aspects in this text by Héctor Schmucler: first, his critical insight into the aestheticization of terror; second, his proposal to use what he calls symmetric memory (i.e., a memory that not only recalls those who are subordinated and suffered State terror); and finally, setting forth a clear relationship between historical memory and political responsibility.

Keywords : history; terror; testimony; forgetting; ethics.