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Books by François Jullien






The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting(1st Edition)
by François Jullien, Jane Marie Todd, Franand#231
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41531-4, ISBN: 0-226-41531-7

"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, The Great Image Has No Form explores the “nonobject”—a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. François Jullien argues that this nonobjectifying approach stems from the painters’ deeply held be ..."






The Book of Beginnings
(The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by François Jullien, Jody Gladding
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22356-9, ISBN: 0-300-22356-0

"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 How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly escape from his or her own cultural perspectives and assumptions? French philosopher Francois Jullien has throughout his career explored the distances b ..."






The Book of Beginnings(1st Edition)
(The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by François Jullien, Jody Gladding
Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20422-3, ISBN: 0-300-20422-1

"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 How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly escape from his or her own cultural perspectives and assumptions? French philosopher Francois Jullien has throughout his career explored the distances b ..."






The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting(1st Edition)
by François Jullien, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41530-7, ISBN: 0-226-41530-9

"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, The Great Image Has No Form explores the ¡°nonobject¡±¡ªa notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.Fran?ois Jullien argues that this nonobjectifying approach stems from the painters¡¯ deeply held ..."






From Being to Living(1st Edition)
a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
by François Jullien, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Franã‡Ois Jullien
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-5264-8729-2, ISBN: 1-5264-8729-2

"This new English translation of François 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 his essential point: that western thinking is obsessed by – and determined as well as limited by – the notion of Being, whereas traditional Chinese thought was always situated in Living. Organized as a lexicon around some 20 concepts that juxt ..."






Yue Minjun(1st Edition)
by Ouyang Jianghe, François Jullien, Adeline Pelletier, Yue Minjun, Hervé Chandès, Sheng Zhong
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-97048-5, ISBN: 0-500-97048-3

"A major monograph on the work of this influential Chinese artist that brings together his most iconic paintings, his major sculptures, and more than 100 drawings Born in 1962 in the city of Daqing in Heilongjiang Province in China, Yue Minjun is an icon of contemporary Chinese painting. Considered one of the protagonists of “Cynical Realism,” an art movement that emerged after the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he b ..."






Resources of Christianity
by François Jullien
128 Pages, Published 2021 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4704-3, ISBN: 1-5095-4704-5

"For there is a question that concerns us all here: are the coherences of Christianity still useful for thought, and especially for thought about existence?"






Published in Association with Theory, Culture and Society Ser.(1st Edition)
From Being to Living : a Euro-Chinese Lexicon of Thought
by François Jullien, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Franã‡Ois Jullien
Hardcover, 210 Pages, Published 2020 by Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-5264-9166-4, ISBN: 1-5264-9166-4

"This is an important book for students, scholars and practitioners alike across the Social Sciences."






From Being to Living
a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought
by François Jullien, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski
224 Pages, Published 2019 by Sage
ISBN-13: 978-1-5264-9270-8, ISBN: 1-5264-9270-9

"This new English translation of François Jullien’s work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison and divergences between Western and Chinese thought."






This Strange Idea of the Beautiful
(Seagull Books - The French List)
by Michael Richardson, François Jullien, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Krysztof Fijalkowski
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Seagull Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-010-7, ISBN: 0-85742-010-0

"In This Strange Idea of the Beautiful, François Jullien explores what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying our commonly agreed upon definition of what is beautiful and offers a new way of beholding art. Jullien argues that the Western concept of beauty was established by Greek philosophy and became conse ..."






The Book of Beginnings
by François Jullien
152 Pages, Published 2015 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21360-7, ISBN: 0-300-21360-3

"It is by Richard Wilhelm, whose 1924 German translation was translated into English, then (re)retranslated by Étienne Perrot into French. It may be surprising that so short and so major a text, traditionally attributed to Confucius and making up part of the canonical book, as well as being universally recognized as basic to Chinese thought because it provides a set of formulas and coherences that have been readopted and exploited e ..."






Vital Nourishment
Departing from Happiness
by François Jullien
178 Pages, Published 2024 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-21-4, ISBN: 1-890951-21-8

"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."






There Is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity
by François Jullien
100 Pages, Published 2021 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4703-6, ISBN: 1-5095-4703-7

"In this short and provocative book, François Jullien argues that this emphasis on cultural identity is a mistake. Cultures exist in relation to one another and they are constantly mutating and transforming themselves."






From Being to Living
a Euro-Chinese Lexicon of Thought
by François Jullien, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski
225 Pages, Published 2019 by Sage
ISBN-13: 978-1-5264-9272-2, ISBN: 1-5264-9272-5

"This new English translation of Francois Jullien's work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison and divergences between Western and Chinese thought."






A Treatise on Efficacy
Between Western and Chinese Thinking
by François Jullien
216 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Hawaii Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-4314-4, ISBN: 0-8248-4314-2

"In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, A Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West."






This Strange Idea of the Beautiful Jullien, Frantois; Fijalkowski, Krzysztof and Richardson, Michael(New edition)
by Franã§Ois Jullien, Franand#231
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2022 by Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-80309-057-3, ISBN: 1-80309-057-X

""Francois Jullien argues that the Western concept of beauty, established by the Greeks and embedded within the structure of European languages, have spread to cultures whose ancient traditions are based on radically different aesthetic ..."






Resources of Christianity(1st Edition)
(Paperback)
by Francois Jullien
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2021 by Polity Press, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4696-1, ISBN: 1-5095-4696-0






A Treatise on Efficacy
Between Western and Chinese Thinking
by François Jullien, Lady Janet Lloyd
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Hawaii Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-2830-1, ISBN: 0-8248-2830-5

"In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, François Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese strategies work in several domains (the battlefield, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troo ..."






The Philosophy of Living(New edition)
(The Seagull Library of French Literature)
by Jullien, François, Fijalkowski, Krzysztof, Richardson, Michael
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2022 by Seagull Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-80309-056-6, ISBN: 1-80309-056-1






Philosophie du vivre
by François Jullien
Paperback, Published 2015 by Editions Gallimard
ISBN-13: 978-2-07-046281-0, ISBN: 2-07-046281-1



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