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To Collect in Order to Survive

Mitroiu, Simona
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Mitroiu, Simona
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Walter Benjamin, fragments, collection, memory, European cultural identity
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Cultural ethics
Cultural/intercultural ethics
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Philosophical Ethics
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Following the distinctions made by Susan Pearce between souvenir collections, fetishism collections and systematic collections, the present study will underline the idea that, for Walter Benjamin, collection was a way to reconnect with the past and to reconstruct an image of what was destroyed. Every object collected by Benjamin was for him a souvenir of the European cultural identity.
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2011-06
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