François Jullien

François Jullien
Born 2 June 1951
Embrun, Hautes-Alpes
Era Contemporary philosophy
Main interests
Chinese philosophy

François Jullien (born 2 June 1951) is a French philosopher and sinologist. Jullien has received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Grand Prix de Philosophie of the Académie Française, and his works have been translated into many languages.[1]

Biography

An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and holder (since 1974) of the agrégation, France's professorial degree, François Jullien studied Chinese language and thought at Peking University and Shanghai University from 1975 to 1977. He received his French university doctorate (doctorat de troisième cycle) in 1978 and his French research doctorate (doctorat d'État) in Far East studies in 1983. Since then Jullien has been head of the Antenne Française de Sinologie in Hong Kong (1978–1981), a guest of the Maison Franco-Japonaise in Tokyo (1985–1987), president of the Association Française d'Etudes Chinoises (1988–1990), director of the East Asia department (UFR) of Paris Diderot University–Paris VII (1990–2000), president of the Collège International de Philosophie (1995–1998), professor at Paris Diderot University, and director of both the Institut de la Pensée Contemporaine and the Centre Marcel-Granet. He was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2001 to 2011 and is the current Chair of Alterity at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris).

Jullien received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought in Germany in 2010 and the Grand Prix de Philosophie of the Académie Française in 2011. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages.[2]

Works

Translations

Secondary literature

Selected articles and interviews

In Le Débat

In other languages

References

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