François Jullien

Contemporary (b. 1951) · Philosophy, Sinology, Comparative Thought

François Jullien (born 1951) is a French philosopher, sinologist, and comparative thinker who has dedicated his career to creating a productive distance between Chinese and European thought. He served as professor at Paris Diderot University and chair of Alterity at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. His work systematically deploys Chinese thought as a 'detour' to defamiliarize and reinterrogate Western philosophical categories.

Notable Works

• The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China
• In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics
• A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking
• The Silent Transformations
• This Strange Idea of the Beautiful
• Living Off Landscape: Or the Unthought-of in Reason
• There Is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity

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