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  • The Philosophy of Living

    by François Jullien ...
    Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson ...
    Series series The Seagull Library of French Literature
    This volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present.Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary—to be alive—and the absoluteness of our aspiration—finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In The Philosophy of Living, François Jullien meditates on Far Eastern thought and philosophy to analyze concepts that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Vital Nourishment

    Departing from Happiness

    by François Jullien ...
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    An intellectual history of the concept of life and body politics in Chinese philosophyThe philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning. Although this process has given rise to a rich history of inquiry, it proceeds too fast, contends François Jullien. In its anxiety about meaning, Western thinkers since Plato have forgotten ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Reopening Possibilities

    A Guide to Décoïncidence

    by François Jullien ...
    Translated by Pedro Rodríguez ...
    Series series Contemporary Realisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Reality
    How can collective action, based on clear-set ideals and goals, respond to our contemporary reality in which uncertainty and precarity reign?In this bold new interpretation of the politics of the collective, François Jullien plots a way through the challenges brought about by AI, digital communication and individualisation. He reimagines the political event – not as a causal link or premeditated ... Read more

    $24.49 CAD

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  • Resources of Christianity

    by François Jullien ...
    Translated by Pedro Rodriguez ...
    Christianity is bound up with the very idea of the West: we cannot evade it even if we would like to. While many people no longer believe in Christianity, we cannot deny that it has left a deep imprint on Western thought. But how might we develop a philosophy of Christianity that is not a Christian philosophy? How can we take a view that is external to the traditions of apologetics and criticism? ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Living Off Landscape

    or the Unthought-of in Reason

    Translated by Pedro Rodriguez ...
    by Francois Jullien ...
    Series series Global Aesthetic Research
    Is it only through vision that we can perceive a landscape? Is the space opened by the landscape truly an expanse cut off by the horizon? Do we observe a landscape in the way that we watch a 'show'? What, ultimately, does it mean to 'look'?In this important new book, one of France's most influential living theorists argues that the first civilization to truly consider landscape was China. In ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • There Is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity

    by François Jullien ...
    Translated by Pedro Rodriguez ...
    As people throughout the world react to globalization and revert to nationalism, they are proclaiming distinct cultural identities for themselves. Cultural identity seems to offer a defensive wall against the homogenizing effects of globalization and a framework for nurturing and protecting cultural differences.In this short and provocative book, François Jullien argues that this emphasis on ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • This Strange Idea of the Beautiful

    by François Jullien ...
    Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson ...
    Series series The Seagull Library of French Literature
    An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful.Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, François 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • From Being to Living : a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought

    by François Jullien, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    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 ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • God Being Nothing

    Toward a Theogony

    by Ray L. Hart ...
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  • The Undiscovered Self

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    by C. G. Jung ...
    Translated by R. F.C. Hull ...
    Series series Jung Extracts
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  • Dao De Jing

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