Author: Francois Jullien

An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, Fra...

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 Chris...

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 Chris...

As people throughout the world react to globalization and revert to nationalism, they are proclaiming distinct cultural identities for themselves. ...

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art al...