Rilkean Memory. (September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rowlands, Mark
• Is Part Of: Southern journal of philosophy. Volume 53(2015)Supplement 1
• Page Start: 141
• Page End: 154
• Publication Date: 2015-09
• Subjects: 105
• DOI: 10.1111/sjp.12118
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0038-4283

Abstract

Abstract: This paper identifies a form of remembering sufficiently overlooked that it has not yet been dignified with a name. I shall christen it Rilkean Memory. This form of memory is, typically, embodied and embedded. It is a form of involuntary, autobiographical memory that is neither implicit nor explicit, neither declarative nor procedural, neither episodic nor semantic, and not Freudian. While a discussion of the importance of Rilkean memory lies beyond the scope of this paper, I shall try to show that admitting Rilkean memory into our ontology does point us in the direction of a very different conception of the mind and mental processes.