The Glass Man. Benjaminian Aesthetics, Jean-Louis Déotte (Montreuil-sur-Seine, 1946) addresses some central axes of Walter Benjamin's thinking to articulate his gaze on aesthetics and art from a new perspective. Through his appropriation of the potentiality of anachronism, he proposes a dialogue between Benjaminian philosophy and various authors ranging from the complexity of Lyotard, Blanchot, Lessing and Descartes to the sensibility of Mapplethorpe and Flaubert to Benjamin's old philosophical companions as Adorno. Backed by Benjaminian heterodoxy and this montage of thinkers, Déotte returns to Benjamin's critique of the social democratic view of history, his differences with Marxism and his readings on modernity, to recover figures such as that of the archaeologist and collector, operators of a notion of temporality that allows to supplement his own access to the present.