Theory of “Cultural Memory” by J. Assmann and Reflection of Multiculturalism: Myth, Memory and Remembrance in Cultures of “Axial Age”

The paper discusses various aspects of the concept “cultural memory” coined by Jan Assmann and related both to problem determining categories culture that became first objects philosophical reflection in era Axial Age issues modern crisis ideology globalism multiculturalism. Using example some an archaic myth have not lost their cultural social relevance at present, variability genesis philosophy civilizations epoch “Axial Age” is demonstrated - those which it arises as independent form worldview where this process stops stage a highly speculative myth. Special attention paid memory recollection past forms spiritual “resistance” external influences preservation religious ethnic identity, equally relevant during post-industrial society globalist