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This paper focuses on a philosopher whose thoughts are fundamental, today, to the question of the critical relation between philosophy and culture, or between politics and culture. Alfredo Gómez-Muller is one of the philosophers who has reflected, with great intellectual rigor, on Latin American imaginaries -and especially Colombian imaginaries- of nation, culture, and race. This is an overview of the origins and impact of Benthamism in the New Granada, as well as of some determinant imaginaries of the nation from the 19th century, which serves as an analysis of the importance given by the author to memory and utopia in building and consolidating a stable and lasting peace in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to inform of the subject in which memory operates, to do so individual memory is used from a phenomenological perspective. This is why considerations about cultural memory, the temporal awareness, the relevance and the subjects of the resource are taken into account. Thus, the text assumes the validity for the social sciences of the external memory with which it is possible to access the way in which societies perceive themselves and imagine themselves, taking into account that individual memory is determined by that collective treatment of the memory. This shows the difference between the memories of the individuals, but in their interlacing they construct a general memory for which bridge Schütz's theory of relevance proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper tries to articulate, in a plexus of critical sense, the philosophical-political potential found in a series of stances like the Latin American philosophy, cultural control, critical theory and memory, that challenge, defend and support, in one same hermeneutic universe, the validity if the heterogeneous thinking, making the critique to sole thinking and the rescue for the other ontologies a "whistle amidst the cyclone". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From three particular works created in Latin America, the article proposes that the contribution of art for the construction of a more democratic culture lies in the work of art that opens the experience of memory as an origin from and by means of which things historical to us and speak to us. For this, the paper addresses works that propose the crisis of the modern museum in relation to history and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]