From being to living = De l'Être au Vivre : a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought / François Jullien ; translated by Michael Richardson & Krzysztof Fijalkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jullien, François, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Richardson, Michael, 1953- translator.

Fijałkowski, Krzysztof, translator.

Series:

Theory, culture & society

Standardized Title:

De l'être au vivre. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Chinese.

Philosophy, European.

Philosophy, Comparative.

Physical Description:

xii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

De l'Être au Vivre

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California ; London, England : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2020.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

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. Jullien argues that Western thinking is preoccupied with the question of 'being', whereas Chinese thought concerned itself principally with that of 'living'. Organised as a lexicon around some 20 concepts that juxtapose Chinese and Western thought, including propensity (vs causality), receptivity (vs freedom), maturation (vs modelisation),between (vs beyond) and resource (vs truth). Jullien explores the ways the two traditions have evolved, and how many aspects of Chinese thought developed in isolation from the West, revealing a different way of relating to the world and the fault lines of western thinking.

Contents:

I Propensity (vs Causality) p. 1

II Potential of Situation (vs Initiative of the Subject) p. 7

III Receptivity (vs Freedom) p. 13

IV Reliability (vs Sincerity) p. 21

V Tenacity (vs Will) p. 28

VI Obliquity (vs Frontality) p. 36

VII Indirectness (vs Method) p. 44

VIII Influence (vs Persuasion) p. 51

IX Coherence (vs Meaning) p. 57

X Connivence (vs Knowledge) p. 65

XI Maturation (vs Modelisation) p. 70

XII Regulation (vs Revelation) p. 76

XIII Silent Transformation (vs Resonant Event) p. 84

XIV Evasive (vs Assignable) p. 90

XV Allusive (vs Allegorical) p. 97

XVI Ambiguous (vs Equivocal) p. 104

XVII Between (vs Beyond) p. 114

XVIII Surge (vs Settled) p. 123

XIX Non-Postponement (vs Delaying Knowledge) p. 133

XX Resource (vs Truth) p. 142.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-208) and index.

ISBN:

1526491664

9781526491664

9781526487292

1526487292

OCLC:

1090855933