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Le 19/06/2020 à 12:36, [email protected] a écrit :
Hello Spectre,
A friend asked me to make some communication for her.
I hope it may interest some of you.
Communiqué du Prix Européen Walter Benjamin 2020
https://prixwb.hypotheses.org/64
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The jury for the Walter Benjamin European Prize is today delighted to announce
the
following awards for the year 2020, the 80th anniversary of Walter Benjamin’s
death.
To Michael Löwy we award the 2020 Walter Benjamin European Prize for his work
‘La
Révolution est le frein d’urgence. Essais sur Walter Benjamin’ (‘Revolution the
emergency brake. Essays on Walter Benjamin’), published by Éditions de l’éclat
as part of its Philosophie imaginaire (Imaginary Philosophy) collection, 2019.
We are honouring not just this piece of work but M. Löwy’s entire canon of work
over the last few decades; as researcher, essayist and translator he has
breathed new life into Walter Benjamin’s ideas for our times and for times to
come.
To Lisa Fittko we award the 2020 Walter Benjamin Special Prize on the occasion
of the
reissue of her autobiography, ‘Le Chemin Walter Benjamin’ (‘In the footsteps of
Walter
Benjamin’) published by Éditions du Seuil, as part of the Maurice Olender
Collection ‘La
Libraire du XXIème Siècle’ (‘The 21st Century Bookshop’) and with a preface by
Edwy
Plenel ‘Le présent du passé’ (‘The present in the past’). In awarding this
prize, which
celebrates an editorial project linked to the life and ideas of Walter
Benjamin, we acknowledge the work of Éditions du Seuil in bringing back long
out-of-print works for a new generation. This also affords us an opportunity to
honour Ms Fittko, exile, resistance fighter and - her preferred description -
“anti-fascist”, who helped save nearly 300 people, including Walter Benjamin
himself, from the clutches of the Vichy government between October 1940 and May
1941 and whose commitment never failed.
Taken together, these two works, each in their different ways, encapsulate the
notion - so close to WB’s heart and just as pertinent today - of “escape
routes”.
These awards came after the collective resignation of the jury who awarded
prizes from
2017 to 2019 for the society Walter Benjamin Sans Frontières (Walter Benjamin
Without
Borders), an act which was precipitated by the discovery of a link between jury
member
and Director of the Mediterranean Literature Centre, André Bonet, and the
politics of the far-right. During the run-up to the 2020 municipal elections in
Perpignan, M Bonet resigned suddenly from both positions and joined the list of
‘independent’ candidates headed by Louis Aliot, himself closely allied to the
far-right RN party.
Jean-Pierre Bonnel, president of both the Jury and Walter Benjamin sans
frontières, chose not to distance himself from this liaison and instead posted
on his blog comments that the society might do well to reconcile itself to an
association with Aliot, concluding with a claim that this far-right candidate
had a more respectable image these days. His comments were widely circulated
and condemned and his subsequent refusal to relinquish his position resulted in
the resignation of all the other members of the jury. The jury members issued a
press release stating that they could not countenance such an exploitation and
undermining of the work and the name of Walter Benjamin and intended therefore
to create a new society to award a new prize.
This new prize seeks to build on the collective activity of the previous jury
and to reestablish the prize on a clear and solid scientific and political
basis. In this way the Society for the Walter Benjamin European Prize remains
faithful to the spirit of respect and vigilance of the original society in a
way that preserves its continuity and independence.
For the jury, Bruno Tackels, President of the Society for the Walter Benjamin
European
Prize et Nathalie Raoux, President of the Jury.
Members of the jury : Alain Badia, psychoanalyst; Marc Berdet, Visiting
Professor at the
University of Brasília, laureate of the W.B.S.F. Prize 2019; Dr Madeleine
Claus, Doctor of German Literature, Associate Professor of German; Dominique
Delpirou, theater director, essayist; Emmanuel Faye, philosopher, Professor at
the University of Rouen-Normandie; Jean Lacoste, philosopher, translator; Maria
Mailat, writer, anthropologist, director of documentary films, translator;
Hélène Peytavi, artist; Nathalie Raoux, historian, researcher (EHESS); Anne
Roche, Professor Emeritus at the University of Aix-Marseille, laureate of the
W.B.S.F. Prize 2018; Bruno Tackels, philosopher, laureate of W.B.S.F Prize 2017.
Contact : [email protected]
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