Oser construire?——Reflections and Clarifications on François Jullien's Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Conceptions of"Time"
Time is one of the most fundamental and profound issues in the history of Chinese and Western philosophy,and it is also a central issue in the construction of contemporary philosophy.The book Du"temps":Éléments d'une philosophie du vivre(2001)by the French sinologist François Jullien,taking into account Wang Fuzhi's thought(mainly the concept of Yijing),sets up a series of distant-gaps between Chinese and European thought in a classical and contemporary perspective,and shows a deep and mixed academic style.Jullien constantly touches on the key issues in the study of Chinese and European comparative philosophy,and his arguments in this book are highly penetrating.However,his extremely philosophically ambitious tracing of the roots of European philosophy,by relying on the Chinese concept of"Shi"as the"upstream"of thought,has a tendency to be structuralist and reductionist,leading instead to a double obscuring of the true history of Chinese and European thought.Jullien's construction of the"otherness"of Chinese thought is entwined with the historical-geographical understanding of European view on China as the alien,yet he is unwilling to confront this fact and reflect on established ideological stereotypes.Jullien's assertion that"Chinese thought dissolves the meaning of life"is formalistic and problematic in its basis.The perspective of cultural history is essential to cross-cultural thinking about"time,"which is precisely the part that Jullien deliberately ignores.
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