Les livres pour enfants et la phénoménologie de l'expérience éphémère à partirde Walter Benjamin

The language and images in children's books are very important research objects for Walter Benjamin, who tried to extend Kant's theory of cognition through his concept of speculative language and image, and to appropriate it to his speculative theory of experience. This paper reviews the semantic tension between language and meaning, colors and graphic lines in the childhood themes in Benjamin's early fragments as well as his book Berlin childhood around 1900. It relates the tension to his diagnosis of the modern people, who have been robbed of a pure experience and deprived of their autobiography. In conclusion, the paper examines the methodological strategy suggested by Benjamin in his figure "child collector" for the salvation of the ephemeral experience.