Franois Jullien's Unexceptional Thought by Arne De Boever - 9781786615763

Franois Jullien's Unexceptional ThoughtA Critical Introduction\nAuthor(s): Arne De Boever\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781786615763, 978-1786615763\nSynopsis\nAlthough the French Hellenist and sinologist Franois Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have been translated into English, he remains much less known in the English-language world than many of his fellow French philosophers. This may be due to his work being perceived as within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this, highlighting Julliens work at the intersection of Chinese and Western thought and drawing out the unthought in both traditions of thinking. This \""unthought\"" can be seen as what conditions our thought, and opens it up onto new ways of thinking and understanding. The notion of \""unthought\"" is at the core of Julliens methodology, operating in what he calls the \""diverg.