“The promise of a historical event is al-ways more than what was actually realised. There is more in the past than what happened. And so we have to find the future of the past, the unfulfilled potential of the past… Even Habermas approaches the Enlightenment in this way, as a still unfulfilled project. There is something still unfulfilled in the Greek heritage, in the Christian heritage, in the Enlightenment heritage, and in the Romantic heritage. There is never pure rupture. There is always reactualisation to some degree or another.”

Paul Ricour