Foreword
“Absolute systems have always seduced souls who yearn for some ideal”
William JAMES
“No one culture constitutes the privileged place from which one can judge other cultures”
Basarab NICOLESCU
“[...] No etymology has the privilege of infallibility, thank God”
Marcel DÉTIENNE
“Heterotopias desiccate the subject, stop words on themselves, challenge, from the root, any possibility of grammar; they unravel myths and strike sterility at the lyricism of sentences”
Michel FOUCAULT
Important books are measured by the impact they have on the most intimate as well as the most “public” of the audiences who read them. They are revelators, inciters to change. As much and even more so than what they bring to their readers in terms of knowledge, they are worthy in that they raise questions to be faced and actions to be taken in their readers’ lifetimes and thoughts. These books, in fact, liberate their readers from desires buried beyond their usual horizons of expectation, marked by repugnance, recklessness or resignation. In short, these books triumph over us, by what is best in us.
Hence, I strongly recommend this book by Yves Richez to an audience that exceeds the expected and desired readership of managers and officials at all levels of companies, teams, schools, trades, administrations, cooperatives, groups, associations and communities of all kinds, old or new, towards a wider public that is less specified, but no less concerned. I recommend this book because it can break ...