François Jullien

François Jullien ( born June 2, 1951 in Embrun, Hautes -Alpes ) is a French philosopher and sinologist.

Life

François Jullien studied as a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d' Ulm 1972-1977 Chinese at universities in Beijing and Shanghai. From 1975 to 1977 he headed the antenna Française de Sinology in Hong Kong. From 1978 to 1981 Jullien was a fellow in the Japanese -German House in Tokyo. In 1978 he became in 1983 a doctorate in East Asian studies and specialist literature.

From 1988 to 1990, Jullien President of the Association Française des Études Chinois ( French Association for Chinese Studies ) and from 1995 to 1998 chairman of the Collège international de philosophie. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the University of Paris VII classical Chinese philosophy and aesthetics.

In other functions is François Jullien Director of the Centre Marcel Granet and the Institute of la Pensee Contemporaine ( center for contemporary thinking), editor of the collections " Orientales " and " Libelles " ( " libels " ) from the publisher Presses Universitaires de France ( PUF) in Paris.

Position

His place in the philosophy determined Jullien as: What is the advantage we gain by the (hoped ) uprooting of thought, an advantage that goes beyond the exploratory our mind, the archeology of its branches, the new composition of the field of the thinkable? A ... " globalized " ... and boring thinking we should not expect. We hesitate ... today to speak simply of " the people " and to call for the definition of his being. Chinese thought, however, when comparing it inscribes itself in the European, just can thus contribute to a self-reflection of humanity. In this encounter, the human can reflect by itself and by its changes. It is no longer in advance and naive ahead, but on the contrary, as the effect of this joining can its various preconceptions patiently explored and new options should be considered. In this way, Jullien plans to bring the new philosophy in momentum.

  • Downsides. From the evil or negative (2005)

In his book quite political downsides. From the evil or negative (2005) Jullien explores the transformation of the concept of the ' negatives ' as the 'bad ' and confronted, as in all his works, their western development with the Chinese thinking. In a new way, this approach allows a look at the > productive < forces of negativity in these times of global homogenization.

"It seems that that is what is now commonly traded under the name of the ' globalization ', radically the conditions of possibility of the negative has changed. Previously, the negative of the other block or the other class. The globalization has this externality, by the negative ( has also worked with the story ) could be discharged, dissolved.

Once it no longer exists outside the other camp, where the negative can be located, this logically leads to its internalization, because the negatives do not disappear, it is rather > repressed "and then does not act more openly, but in secret.

It is now therefore point is to ask yourself the question as to the make "logic". For the September 11 ( 2001) is really an event, as has been said, or even the ( urplötzliche ) event par excellence? Own this date by its surprise effect and by what has triggered it, in fact, the function of a burglary? I want to see it more as the sudden, but summarizing Reveal a > silent change < and gather this term the Chinese thinking " (Quote from: Shadow pages)..

For the German reception the book dialogue on morality, a comparison of the Chinese philosopher Mencius with the philosophy of the Enlightenment is important.

Criticism

The work of François Jullien has been criticized from various sides, especially from some sinologist, including primarily Jean François Billeter. This has mainly published two texts against François Jullien and its method:

  • « Comment lire Wang Fuzhi? »; This article challenges the book Procès ou création (1989);
  • Contre François Jullien (2006); This book criticizes the entire work of Jullien.

François Jullien has responded to the first of these two texts in " Lecture ou projectiondesign: Comment lire ( autrement ) Wang Fuzhi? ».

Contre François Jullien throws Jullien claim to have seen the China that he wanted to see, and to exaggerate the Chinese otherness. This issue was an ideological construction of imperial Chinese power, which would have the mandarin, the learned representatives of the central power, the Jesuit missionaries taught. From then on, have this ' myth ', the Chinese and the general image of the west of China makes, on Leibniz, Voltaire, Marcel Granet, Victor Segalen etc. contaminated. Jullien perpetuated by continued writing this myth, this tradition, which obscures the true political sources of ' Chinese thought '.

Membership

  • Since 2001: Institut Universitaire de France

Awards

Publications

  • About the effectiveness. Berlin: Merve, 1999, ISBN 978-3-88396-156-9
  • About the Fade - a eulogy. For thought and aesthetics in China. Berlin: Merve, 1999, ISBN 978-3-88396-151-4
  • Detour and access. Strategies of meaning in China and Greece. Vienna: Passages, 2000 ( original title: Le et l' accès détour Stratégies du sens en Chine, en Grèce Grasset, Paris, 1995 Translated by Markus Sedlaczek. .. ), ISBN 978-3-85165-407-3.
  • The way attached to any idea. Munich: Fink, 2001.
  • The detour via China. Berlin: Merve, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88396-177-4.
  • On the nature of the nude. Zurich / Berlin: Diaphanes, 2003.
  • Dialogue on morality. Berlin: Merve, 2003, ISBN 978-3-88396-184-2.
  • About the "time." Zurich / Berlin: Diaphanes, 2004.
  • The art of making lists. (together with Karine Chemla and Jacqueline Pigeot ), Berlin: Merve, 2004, ISBN 978-3-88396-201-6.
  • Downsides. About the evil and the negative. Zurich / Berlin: Diaphanes, 2005.
  • A deconstruction of the outside. From Greece to China or how fathomed the firmly established notions of European reason ( bilingual dt frz ), 51 S., in the series: Dt- frz. Interactions, Translator Felix Heidenreich, eds DVA -Stiftung, Stuttgart 2005 ( therein. Directory of the major works in French until 2004, pp. 54f )
  • Nourish his life. Away from happiness. Berlin: Merve, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88396-219-1.
  • Presentation to managers on the effectiveness and efficiency in China and in the West. Berlin: Merve, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88396-223-8.
  • The Universal, the Monotonous, the common and the dialogue between cultures. Berlin: Merve, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88396-262-7.
  • The silent transformations. Berlin: Merve, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88396-284-9.
  • The monkey bridge. Passages, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85165-972-6.
  • The strange idea of beauty. Passages, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7092-0050-6.
  • Philosophy of life. Passages, Vienna, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7092-0018-6.
  • The road to the other. Alterity in the age of globalization. Passages, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7092-0117-6.
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