Mitroiu, Simona2019-09-252019-09-252012-10-102011-062065-5002http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/187678Following 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.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderWalter Benjamin, fragments, collection, memory, European cultural identityCultural ethicsCultural/intercultural ethicsArticle