Francois Jullien

(Embrun, France, 1951)

Sinologist and philosopher, professor at the Paris-VII Denis Diderot University, where he directs the Institute of Contemporary Thought and the Marcel-Granet Center. He has also been president of the French Association of Chinese Studies and of the Collège International de Philosophie. Jullien has dedicated his work to exploring the relationships between Chinese thought and European philosophy, searching for other intelligibilities in the Far East. He has published numerous books, including Of the essence or the nude (2004), Nurturing life: beyond happiness (2008), The great image has no shape (2008), The shadow in the painting (Arena Libros, 2009 ), The silent transformations (2010), Of the universal, of the uniform, of the common, of the dialogue between cultures (2010) and, still without translation, Cette étrange idée du beau (2010).