{"title":"François Jullien","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrançois Jullien’s work explores the subtle intersections between \u003cem\u003ephilosophy, culture, and spirituality\u003c\/em\u003e, inviting readers to reconsider familiar concepts through fresh perspectives. His reflections often draw on both Western and Eastern traditions to challenge conventional understandings of identity, beauty, and existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with themes of religion, aesthetics, and the nature of living, Jullien’s writing offers thoughtful insights for those drawn to \u003cstrong\u003ephilosophical inquiry and cultural reflection\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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Jullien argues that the Western concept of beauty was established by Greek philosophy and became consequently embedded within the very structure of European languages. Due to its relationship to language, this concept has determined ways of thinking about beauty that often go unnoticed or unchecked in discussions of Western aesthetics. Moreover, through globalization, Western ideals of beauty have even spread to cultures whose ancient traditions are based upon radically different aesthetic foundations; yet, these cultures have adopted such views without question and without recognizing the cultural assumptions they contain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLooking specifically at how Chinese texts have been translated into Western languages, Jullien reveals how the traditional Chinese refusal to isolate or abstract beauty is obscured in translation to make the works more understandable to Western readers. Creating an engaging dialogue between Chinese and Western ideas, Jullien reassesses the essence of beauty in \u003cem\u003eThis Strange Idea of the Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000827265260,"sku":"9781803090573","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27005823482829.jpg?v=1763308044"},{"product_id":"the-great-image-has-no-form-or-on-the-nonobject-through-painting-by-francois-jullien-9780226415314","title":"The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Image Has No Form\u003c\/i\u003e explores the \"nonobject\"—a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrançois Jullien argues that this nonobjectifying approach stems from the painters’ deeply held belief in a continuum of existence, in which art is not distinct from reality. Contrasting this perspective with the Western notion of art as separate from the world it represents, Jullien investigates the theoretical conditions that allow us to apprehend, isolate, and abstract objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis comparative method lays bare the assumptions of Chinese and European thought, revitalising the questions of what painting is, where it comes from, and what it does. 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How can we take a view that is external to the traditions of apologetics and criticism? 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo address this question, François Jullien considers Christianity as constituting a set of resources. Resources are available to all and can be used by those who discover and exploit them; they belong to no one. Christianity offers us resources inasmuch as we can draw some benefit from it, inasmuch as it can be the source of an effect, without our having to believe it or determine its truth in advance. Jullien reads the Gospels, and especially the Gospel of John, as he would read any other text, seeking to account for the text's coherence (rather than its ‘meaning’), seeking to account for its pertinence (rather than its ‘truth’), but without any need to adhere – the exploitation of resources demands no conversion. And in reading the Gospel of John in this way, we discover the fertile veins of a theory of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fresh and erudite reflection on Christianity will be of great value to anyone interested in religion and its relevance today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427532259564,"sku":"9781509546961","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509546961.jpg?v=1774767458"},{"product_id":"the-propensity-of-things-by-francois-jullien-9780942299953","title":"The Propensity of Things","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologist François Jullien uses the Chinese concept of \u003cem\u003eshi\u003c\/em\u003e—meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential—as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, François Jullien uses the Chinese concept of \u003cem\u003eshi\u003c\/em\u003e as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking. A Hegelian prejudice still haunts studies of ancient Chinese civilization: Chinese thought, never able to evolve beyond a cosmological point of view, with an indifference to any notion of \u003cem\u003etelos\u003c\/em\u003e, sought to interpret reality solely on the basis of itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking study, prejudices toward the simplicity and \"naïveté\" of Chinese thought, Hegelian and otherwise, are dismantled one by one to reveal the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking and representing reality. Jullien begins with a single Chinese term, \u003cem\u003eshi\u003c\/em\u003e, whose very ambivalence and disconcerting polysemy, on the one hand, and simple efficacy, on the other, defy the order of a concept. Yet \u003cem\u003eshi\u003c\/em\u003e insinuates itself into the ordering and conditioning of reality in all its manifold and complex representations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause \u003cem\u003eshi\u003c\/em\u003e neither gave rise to any coherent, general analysis nor figured as one of the major concepts among Chinese thinkers, Jullien follows its appearance from one field to another: from military strategy to politics; from the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting to the theory of literature; and from reflection on history to \"first philosophy.\" At the point where these various domains intersect, a fundamental intuition assumed self-evident for centuries emerges, namely, that reality—every kind of reality—may be perceived as a particular deployment or arrangement of things to be relied upon and worked to one's advantage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArt or wisdom, as conceived by the Chinese, lies in strategically exploiting the propensity that emanates from this particular configuration of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47559050297580,"sku":"9780942299953","price":74.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780942299953-the-propensity-of-things.jpg?v=1776928500"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/francois-jullien.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}