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    Memory and the abyss of communication: Philosophers' collective memory, citation and meaning attribution
    Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 2 (2): 181-194. 2011.
    Are there certain kinds of memory that impose conditions in communicative exchanges? In this article I address this issue having as a reference case the well known debate between J. Derrida and J. R. Searle. Through the pages of the exchange, Searle appeals to what he conceives as social memory of philosophical tradition and to the memory of his teacher J. L. Austin, as his intellectual legatee and authorized spokesman. On the other hand, Derrida 'stretches' the practice of citation - a procedur…Read more