Aimer Walter Benjamin : à propos des gestes profanes et de la crypte de la poésie

Book synopsis: Forced into exile in March 1933, and taking refuge primarily in Paris, Walter Benjamin nonetheless relentlessly pursued a radical struggle against fascism until his suicide in Portbou in September 1940. The contributions gathered here, the fruit of several conferences, seek to trace, through his friendships, his readings, his spaces for publication and controversy, as well as through the constant re-evaluation of his research, the vital ellipse constructed by the German Jewish philosopher in exile from "Experience and Poverty" to the theses On the Concept of History.