Book extracts preview

Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Petritsch
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, 407 pp.


Opening
Enter the Labyrinth

by Christophe Solioz


"To think with Wolfgang Petritsch is to enter a Labyrinth. As Cornelius Castoriadis put it, reversing the domination of Platonic theorising: “To think is not to get out of the cave; it is not to replace the uncertainty of shadows by the clear-cut outlines of things themselves, the flame's thickening glow by the light of the true Sun. To think is to enter the Labyrinth; more exactly, to make be and appear a labyrinth when we might have stayed 'lying among the flowers, facing the sky”. Of course - entering a labyrinth in search of a way!"


Christophe Solioz is Secretary-General of the Center for European Integration Strategies