by Walter Benjamin · Editions du Rocher · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782268099217
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«J'ai vu la mort en face: Une vie après l'attentat» is the testimony of Walter Benjamin, published by Editions du Rocher in paperback (240 pages).
In the 2016 Brussels airport attack, Walter Benjamin lost a leg and was in critical condition. The book recounts his physical and psychological recovery: hospitalisation, operations and rehabilitation. There is also Hassan, the man who saved him, and his connection with patients with severe disabilities and young people from Molenbeek.
On the day of the attack, Walter Benjamin was heading to Israel to see his daughter. Text in French; publication: 28 February 2018.
Recommended for readers interested in real-life stories of overcoming adversity and in the memory of the Brussels attacks.
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism, and aesthetics, and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem.
