Living Off Landscape

Francois Jullien, Professor, Universite de Paris-Diderot and Chair of Alterity, Fondation Maisondes Sciences de l'HommeFrancois Jullien is Professor and Chair of the Department of Oriental Studies at Universite de Paris-Diderot and Chair of Alterity at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. He is alsoPresident of the College International de Philosophie in Paris. His previous books on aestheticshave all been translated into English, including The Strange Idea of Beauty (2015), The Great Imagehas No Form, or On the Nonobject Through Painting (2009) and The Impossible Nude (2007).Pedro Rodriguez, translator

• Prologue / 1. Land – Landscape: Expanse, View, Cut-Off / 2. "Mountain(s)-Water(s)" / 3. From a Landscape to Living / 4. When the Perceptual Turns Out to Be Affectual / 5. When "Spirit" Emanates from the Physical / 6. Tension-Setting / 7. Singularization, Variation, Remove / 8. Connivance / Epilogue / Index

Francois Jullien's rich exploration of what he calls "landscape thought" raises awareness of the cultural conditioning that obscures understanding and renders new thought impossible. Through his focus on environmental aesthetics in China and Europe he provides us with a philosophical method for productive possibilities of global engagement at all levels. This is a comparatist scholarship for a globally articulated time.?