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On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures

Francois Jullien

* Francois Jullien is a philosopher with a specialist knowledge of China and Chinese thought. He uses Chinese thought as a mirror to reflect on the West and as an…

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There Is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity

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A powerful critique of our preoccupation with identity and difference –

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Vital Nourishment

Francois Jullien

A philosophical inquiry into how to "feed life," or nourish it, draws from early Chinese thinker Zhuanghi to explore notions of breath, energy, and immanence.

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Francois Jullien’s Unexceptional Thought: A Critical Introduction

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Arne de Boever offers an accessible introduction to Francois Jullien’s work, highlighting Jullien’s work at the intersection of Chinese and Western thought and drawing out the ‘unthought-of’ in both traditions…

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Francois Jullien’s Unexceptional Thought: A Critical Introduction

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Arne de Boever offers an accessible introduction to Francois Jullien’s work, highlighting Jullien’s work at the intersection of Chinese and Western thought and drawing out the ‘unthought-of’ in both traditions…

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On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures

Francois Jullien

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A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking

Francois Jullien

In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, Francois Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of…

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A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking

Francois Jullien

In this analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, Francois Jullien delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare…

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Living Off Landscape: or the Unthought-of in Reason

Francois Jullien

In giving landscape the name ‘mountain(s)-water(s)’, the Chinese language provides a powerful alternative to Western biases. Francois Jullien invites the reader to explore reason’s unthought choices, and to take a…

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Living Off Landscape: or the Unthought-of in Reason

Francois Jullien

In giving landscape the name ‘mountain(s)-water(s)’, the Chinese language provides a powerful alternative to Western biases. Francois Jullien invites the reader to explore reason’s unthought choices, and to take a…

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Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece

Francois Jullien

An exploration of the central role of indirect modes of expression in ancient China.

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Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness

Francois Jullien

A philosophical inquiry into how to feed life, or nourish it, draws from early Chinese thinker Zhuanghi to explore notions of breath, energy, and immanence.

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The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China

Francois Jullien

French sinologist Francois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi - meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential - as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the…

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The Book of Beginnings

Francois Jullien

A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way of thinking

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Resources of Christianity

Francois Jullien

A fresh and erudite reflection on Christianity and its relevance today –

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Resources of Christianity

Francois Jullien

A fresh and erudite reflection on Christianity and its relevance today –

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There Is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity

F Jullien

A powerful critique of our preoccupation with identity and difference –

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The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

Francois Jullien

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this…

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In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics

Francois Jullien

A consideration of blandness not as the absence of defining qualities but as the harmonious union of all potential values–an infinite opening into human experience.

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The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

Francois Jullien

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this…

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From Being to Living : a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought

Francois Jullien,Michael Richardson,Krzysztof Fijalkowski

This new English translation of Francois Jullien’s work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises…

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From Being to Living : a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought

Francois Jullien,Michael Richardson,Krzysztof Fijalkowski

This new English translation of Francois Jullien’s work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises…

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The Philosophy of Living

Francois Jullien,Krzysztof Fijalkowski,Michael Richardson

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This Strange Idea of the Beautiful

Francois Jullien,Krzysztof Fijalkowski,Michael Richardson

An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful.

Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, Francois Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying our…

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The Poetry of Translation

Reflections on the art and process of translation

An investigation into the compelling phenomenon of translation, understood here as a creative process through which something new is always created. Including…

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