With a total of fourteen feature-length films and thirty documentaries and fiction short films, nearly three thousand cultural programs for German television, nearly four thousand literary pages and a few in essay code, the work of Alexander Kluge attests to his indefatigable obsession with the care of That vital sphere of exchange that we call the public sphere. A disciple and heir to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Kluge works for a new type of Enlightenment, which assumes the failures and virtues of his own tradition and builds his destiny by combining the impulse of reason with the determination of sensitivity And emotions. In this way, the public sphere to which Kluge devotes his work of architect is a garden in which literature, music and images cooperate side by side, in which poetics accompanies theory to build the bridges of the Trust that enables thinking in community. The context of a garden brings together interventions made by Kluge between 1989 and 2012; In his majority, speeches pronounced when receiving some of the many literary prizes with which he was awarded, and speeches laudatory or funeral on the occasion of the homage or death of prominent figures of the German culture. When he ponders the intellectual heritage of thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Adorno, or Habermas, when he regains the spirit of Lessing, Goethe, Schiller or Heinrich Böll's literature, he pays homage to artists such as Heiner Müller, Christoph Schlingensief, or Anselm Kiefer, On opera, film, television and the visual arts, Kluge invokes an extensive score written over time, a ductile web of involuntary alliances in which the reserves of social fantasy necessary to orient us in the labyrinth of crude reality.