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Halbwachs

Maurice Halbwachs · French sociologist (1877-1945), died in Buchenwald concentration camp · 1877–1945

Appears in 9 videos · 13 passages, 7 of them in depth.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani cites Maurice Halbwachs for a single work, Les Cadres sociaux de la mémoire (The Social Frameworks of Memory), and presents him as a forgotten sociologist1. What he takes from it is that memory does not belong only to the psychological or biological field. It is overdetermined and social, and depends on collective relays external to the body2. Memory is not a report of what really happened: we retain what the press and others take up, and forgetting can be induced3. Whatever has no social, media or school relay to recall it disappears4. From 2022 on, he applies this thesis to current events: the war in Ukraine, Niger, the silence about the Congo5. He also notes that history, known to specialists, is not passed on by the social frameworks of memory. In 2025, he makes the book a model for rearranging the frameworks of memory against the collective amnesia maintained by the media, notably regarding the D-Day landings6.

  1. 1Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 4:07
  2. 210#6 Guerre et Paix : "Les pulsions de mort progressent en silence..." (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 50:57
  3. 3#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 34:06
  4. 4Les silences du vacarme médiatique - nouveau cycle : la renazification atlantiste.21 Oct 2025 · 44:30
  5. 5Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 26:05
  6. 6De l'anti-soviétisme des khmers rouges-vert6 Feb 2025 · 5:40

Summary produced automatically from 13 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Portrait: HalbwachsWho is this?

Maurice Halbwachs (French:; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his La Topographie Legendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte, a study of the spatial infrastructure of the New Testament (1951).

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