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A classicist by training, a sinologist by choice, François Jullien turned to China as a means of destabilizing the assumptions of Western philosophy, the better to return with a fresh outlook on his own civilization. Among his many publications on his cultural findings in areas from art to commerce are La propension des choses (Le Seuil, 1992, 2003), Le Nu impossible (Le Seuil, 2000), and Traité de l’éfficacité (Grasset, 1997). In 2005, Presses Universitaires de France published a study of his work, Chine/Europe : Percussions dans la pensée. Born in 1951, he teaches at the University of Paris VII. In 2002, he was elected Director of the Institute of Contemporary Thought (L’Institut de la pensée contemporaine), where these lectures were first given.
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